Vigilantism
Culberson, William C.![Vigilantism](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/114/1147455/CHSBZCOP031147455.jpg)
The author examines the American people's history of taking the law into their own hands and analyzes the use of private power in three eras of American politics - Colonial, Populist and Progressive - asserting that it was crucial in creating, distributing and maintaining social values.