Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Saslow tells the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe, at tremendous personal cost.
This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another..
With great empathy and narrative verve, Eli Saslow asks what Derek\'s story can tell us about America\'s increasingly divided nature.
Rising Out of Hatred tells the story of how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the White House through the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe, at tremendous personal cost.
As White nationalism infiltrated the political mainstream, Derek decided to confront the damage he had done.
It was because of those dinners--and the wide-ranging relationships formed at that table--that Derek started to question the science, history, and prejudices behind his worldview.
Other students found the courage to reach out to him, including an Orthodox Jew who invited Derek to attend weekly Shabbat dinners.
Some students protested Derek\'s presence on campus, forcing him to reconcile for the first time with the ugliness of his beliefs.
New College student The ensuing uproar overtook one of the most liberal colleges in the country. White supremacist, radio host ...
Derek Black ...
At New College of Florida, he continued to broadcast his radio show in secret each morning, living a double life until a classmate uncovered his identity and sent an email to the entire school.
Then he went to college.
We can take the country back.
We can infiltrate, Derek once told a crowd of White nationalists.
By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show--already regarded as the the leading light of the burgeoning White Nationalist movement.
His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard.
His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet.
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent White supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of White nationalism.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Saslow tells the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe, at tremendous personal cost
