Extremist Groups: Information for Students

Two hefty, profusely illustrated, well presented volumes in two‐column format, designed specifically “for students”, suggest that the potentially apocalyptic, endemic “war on terror” may be becoming a high school and an undergraduate preoccupation stateside. Extremist Groups: Information for Students aims “to provide key facts and insight into the history, philosophy, and motivations driving 150 extremist organizations”. Some groups, such as the Sons of Liberty (of Boston Tea Party fame), are included for historical perspective, but the vast majority are active in some way today, locally or internationally. Properly, the Paris‐based editorial team of this new work of reference are exercised...