The book received generally favorable reviews. "Library Journal" said it was a "detailed historical examination" that "strikes an excellent balance between narrative and theory." "The New York Review of Books" described it as an excellent account describing the outermost fringes of American conservatism. A review by Jerome Himmelstein in the journal "Contemporary Sociology" said that "it offers more than a scholarly treatise on the activities of the Third Reich", that it provides a background to help the reader understand the Holocaust and that it "merits close attention from scholars of the political right in America and of social movements generally."