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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Bring the War Home The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Author:Kathleen Belew A Guardian Best Book of the Year?A gripping study of white power? Explosive.? — ?New York Times?Helps explain how we got to today?s alt-right.? — ?Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution.Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and di... more »sgruntled civilians who shared their virulent anti-communism and potent sense of betrayal concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. The command structure of their covert movement gave women a prominent place. They operated with discipline, made tragic headlines in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City, and are resurgent under President Trump. Based on a decade of deep immersion in previously classified FBI files and on extensive interviews, Bring the War Home tells the story of American paramilitarism and the birth of the alt-right.?A much-needed and troubling revelation? The power of Belew?s book comes, in part, from the fact that it reveals a story about white-racist violence that we should all already know.?
?The Nation?Fascinating? Shows how hatred of the federal government, fears of communism, and racism all combined in white-power ideology and explains why our responses to the movement have long been woefully inadequate.?
?Slate?Superbly comprehensive?supplants all journalistic accounts of America?s resurgent white supremacism.?