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More copies of this ISBN:Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstreamby Leonard Zeskind
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A unprecedented, sweeping account of white nationalism's rise in Americafrom the MacArthur Award-Winning expert in the field More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history of the white supremacist movement as its evolved over the last three-plus decades. Leonard Zeskind, an internationally recognized expert on the subject, ties together seemingly disparate strandsfrom neo-Nazi skinheads, to Holocaust deniers, to Christian Identity churches, to David Duke, to the militia and beyond. Among these organizations, two political strategies, mainstreaming and vanguardism, vie for dominance. Mainstreamers believe that a majority of white Christians will eventually support their cause. Vanguardists build small organizations of a highly dedicated cadre and plan a naked seizure of power. Zeskind shows how these factions have evolved into a normative social movement that looks like a demographic slice of white America, mostly blue-collar and working middle class, with lawyers and PhDs among their leaders. When the cold war ended, traditional conservatives helped birth a new white nationalism, most evident now among anti-immigrant organizations. With the dawn of a new millennium, they are fixated on predictions that white people will lose their majority status and become one minority among manyand the book concludes with a look to the future, elucidating the growing threat these groups will pose to coming generations. Review:"Journalist Zeskind delivers a thorough, if scattered, dossier on white nationalist politics in America from the end of WWII to the present, focusing closely on three plotters on the fringe of the American mainstream: Willis Carto, William Pierce and David Duke. Among the book's dizzying investigations of neo-Confederates, skinheads, survivalists, tax protestors, Second Amendment nuts and anti-Semites, these three men loom largest as the provocateurs and grandfathers of racist politics. Drawing on writings from Oswald Spengler and Francis Parker Yockey, these white nationalists constructed a narrative about the death of Western civilization, where white nationalists are patriotic race warriors hawking their ideas at gun shows, in print and in online forums. With the breadth of an encyclopedia, this book features a staggering number of actors, publications, flashpoints and organizations, such as the Posse Comitatus movement, which denies all of the Constitution's amendments after the 14th, prints community money and seeks independence from ZOG (the Zionist Occupation Government). Zeskind's rigorously researched and eloquent book is a definitive history of white nationalism and contains alarming warnings for a resurgence in racist politics." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:From a MacArthur Award-winning author comes this comprehensive history of the white supremacist movement as it's evolved over the last three-plus decades. About the AuthorLeonard Zeskind has written widely on the radical right for publications such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and the Forward. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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