DougR,

Here are two books that I think you'd enjoy--Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States", and Norman Cohen's "In Purusit of the Millenium"--the Zinn book is easy to find, and it is very well written--it is a must for folkies, since he writes about many of the events and conflicts that we know about mostly through songs--

The Cohen book may be hard to find, since it is about millenialists and religious cults that attempted to overthrown the social order in the middle ages(not a hot topic with most readers)--but, if you are interested in this sort of thing, it is worth the effort in finding it. GUEST,peter, if you are interested in the Hussites, this book is for you! The main thrust of the book is to uncover the ideological roots of the Nazism and Communism--

For those of you who haven't got the time or inclination to read (a sad situation, I must say), I refer you to Rogers and Hammerstein, who said. "You've got to be taught to hate and fear...you've got to be carefully taught"--