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

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

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

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

by Kathleen Belew

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Overview

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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674237698
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 05/07/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 84,716
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

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.”

Table of Contents

Note to Readers ix

Introduction 1

Part I Formation

1 The Vietnam War Story 19

2 Building the Underground 33

3 A Unified Movement 55

4 Mercenaries and Paramilitary Praxis 77

Part II The War Comes Home

5 The Revolutionary Turn 103

6 Weapons of War 135

7 Race War and White Women 156

Part III Apocalypse

8 Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Militarized Policing 187

9 The Bombing of Oklahoma City 209

Epilogue 235

Notes 241

Sources 319

Acknowledgments 323

Index 327

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