Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
English
By (author): Kathleen Belew
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
A gripping study of white powerExplosive.
New York Times
Helps explain how we got to todays alt-right.
Terry Gross, Fresh Air
The 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 disgruntled 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 Belews 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 comprehensivesupplants all journalistic accounts of Americas resurgent white supremacism.
Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian