The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground

They claim to be as American as apple pie, but they are this nation's deadly brotherhood--hate groups that package their alienation against the federal government under such names as the Aryan Nations, Christian Identity, and other white supremacist militias. They spout anti-black, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi rhetoric, and their grievances have festered into full-blown paranoia. They are poised to disrupt America's major cities via thievery, assassination, and bombs. This is the chilling inside story about the most heinous domestic terror groups in American history.

Two courageous investigative journalists have created an insiders' account of the "silent brotherhood," the anti-Jewish, white supremacist underground that, with the justification of some perversely interpreted Christian teachings, conducts an all-out race war. The movement has gathered a group of superpatriots, zealots, malcontents, as well as, rather disturbingly, a large majority of ordinary people. These followers see the underground's survivalist creed as the way whites can protect their race from "Jewish monied elites" and nonwhites "living off of welfare." Flynn and Gerhardt outline some of the brotherhood's activities--bank robberies, armored car heists, and, most notably, the savage assassination of Denver radio talk-show host Allan Berg. A chilling, frightening book.
- Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph
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