The following publications discuss the nature of terrorism in the United States and the root causes of political violence in American society.

Bader, Eleanor J. and Patricia Baird-Windle. 2001. Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism. New York: Palgrave.

Dunbar, David and Brad Reagan, eds. 2006. Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand up to the Facts. New York: Hearst Books.

Emerson, Steven. 2002. American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us. New York: Free Press.

Emerson, Steven. 2006. Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the US. Amherst, NY: Prometheus.

Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed and Laura Grossman. 2009. Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. Washington, DC: FDD Press.

George, John and Laird Wilcox. 1996. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, and Others. Amherst, NY: Prometheus.

German, Mike. 2007. Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent. Washington, DC: Potomac Books.

Gerstenfeld, Phyllis B.  2013.  Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Graebmer, William. 2008. Patty’s Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kaczynski, Theodore.  2010.  Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber.” Port Townsend, WA: Feral House.

Kurst-Swanger, Karl. 2008. Worship and Sin: An Exploration of Religion-Related Crime in the United States. New York: Peter Lang.

MacDonald, Andrew. 1978. The Turner Diaries. New York: Barricade.

McCann, Joseph T. 2006. Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators From the Famous to the Forgotten. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications.

McCarthy, Timothy Patrick and John McMillian. 2003. The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition. New York: New Press.

Michel, Lou and Dan Herbeck. 2001 American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing. New York: Regan Books.

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. 2004. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Perkins, Samuel. 2011. Homegrown Terror and American Jihadists: Assessing the Threat. Hauppauge, NY: Nova.

Ridgeway, James. 1995. Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture. 2nd ed. New York: Thunder’s Mouth.

Ronczkowski, Michael. 2006. Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime: Intelligence Gathering, Analysis, and Investigations. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Sargent, Lyman Tower, ed. 1995. Extremism in America: A Reader. New York: New York University Press.

Simon, Jeffrey D.  2013.  Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat.  New York: Prometheus Books.

Smith, Brent L. 1994. Terrorism in America: Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Stern, Kenneth S. 1997. A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Wilkerson, Cathy. 2007. Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman. New York: Seven Stories Press.

Zakin, Susan. 2002. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Zeskind, Leonard. 2009. Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.