political subversion definition
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. Illustrated. 356 pp. $25. ``Political demonology'' is the study of subversive threats to the political system and countersubversive measures to stem such threats. Defined this way, it appears to be a clear-cut discipline.
Understanding how significant and central to American history the above episodes are is key to understanding Rogin's main thesis: The division of political demonologists into two camps is artificial. Disagreeing with the realists, Rogin states there is indeed a demonological world view, latent with unconscious meanings.