"Belew\'s book helps explain how we got to today\'s alt right." --Terry Gross, Fresh Air"This is a work of fierce intelligence...
Bring the War Ho.
In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some.
Belew\'s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space.
Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits.
The White Power Movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking.
They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and White separatists.
Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified.
In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the Movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of White supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse.
It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out--with military precision--an escalating campaign of terror against the American public.
A book of signal importance and urgency, it provides a haunting vantage point on contemporary American political culture." --Nancy Mac Lean, author of Democracy in Chains The White Power Movement in America wants a revolution.
Belew shows how White Power activists used their view of the Vietnam War to advance every element of their reactionary agenda and to justify domestic terrorism. "Belew\'s book helps explain how we got to today\'s alt right." --Terry Gross, Fresh Air"This is a work of fierce intelligence..
