Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

ISBN 10: 0674237692 / ISBN 13: 9780674237698

Published by Harvard University Press May 2019, 2019

About this Item

used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners somewhat bumped. spine may be a bit sunned. light scuffing to covers, bottom edge of text block may be lightly discolored from shelfwear. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. Signed by author in black ink on title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
• Publisher: Harvard University Press May 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674237692
• ISBN 13: 9780674237698
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: SIGNED / VG
• Signed: Signed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • POL US / current affairs

About this title

Synopsis

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 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 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.”
―Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian

About the Author

Kathleen Belew spent ten years researching and writing Bring the War Home, examining previously classified FBI files and vivid personal testimonies and letters. She is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University and has appeared on Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, and CBS News. Her work featured prominently in the PBS Frontline documentary “Documenting Hate: New American Nazis.”