Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the MainstreamAvailable Now

“Zeskind’s rigorously researched and eloquent book is a definitive history of white nationalism.” —Publishers Weekly

“Zeskind offers a well-placed warning ” —Kirkus Reviews

“Recommended for all libraries.” —Stephen L. Hupp, Library Journal

“Exhaustively researched, Blood and Politics is not only a brilliant account of the origins, modes of operation, collaborations, and internecine disputes of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denier, and anti-Semitic groups in America, but alerts us to the fact that despite—or perhaps because of—significant improvements in race relations and changing demographic patterns, we are likely to witness a resurgence of their activities.” —Drew S. Days III, Professor of Law, Yale University, and former U.S. Solicitor General

www.BloodandPolitics.com

Book Review in The Forward

Written by Dan Levitas | 29 May 2009

The Racists Around Us

White Nationalists in America

By Daniel Levitas

Published May 27, 2009, issue of June 05, 2009.

Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream
By Leonard Zeskind
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 672 pages, $37.50.

To most Americans, including seasoned political observers, the machinations of white supremacists and professional antisemites are regarded, if at all, as crude carnival theater. After more than three decades of close observation, Leonard Zeskind, recipient of a 1998 MacArthur Fellowship for his independent scholarship on far-right, racist and neo-Nazi groups, is not so dismissive. More important, his first book, “Blood and Politics,” analyzes the past 35 years to provide a trenchant and troubling assessment of the future of what Zeskind terms “the white nationalist movement.”

Click the link to read more….

http://www.forward.com/articles/106665/

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Book Review by Loretta Ross in The Public Eye

Written by Loretta Ross | 29 May 2009

A Longtime Anti-Racism Activist’s Take on History
Reviewed by Loretta J. Ross
The Public Eye, Summer 2009

Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream - By Leonard Zeskind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, 656 pages, $37.50 cloth.)

Loretta Ross is National Coordinator of SisterSong, the women of color reproductive health collective based in Atlanta. She is coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice.
 
It is so irritating to watch Pat Buchanan on MSNBC. There he was on Morning Joe, blaming the financial crisis on banks lending to people of color. His makeover as a respectable “conservative” pundit – conveniently forgetting his racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic slippages – is a testament to the power of the mainstream media to shape a Wonderland world Alice would have recognized.

Thank goodness for Leonard Zeskind’s long-awaited book. It has restored my faith in the power of truth to trump travesty.

Thirty years in the making, Blood and Politics reads like a political thriller that details intimate knowledge about the origins, history, leaders and activities of the White supremacist groups in the United States. But Zeskind’s book is no laundry list. His analysis helps us make sense of the netherworld of ideas and relationships that populate and bind together denizens of the Far Right, the Religious Right, and the ultra-conservative movements he places under the banner of “White nationalism.”

for the complete review go to:
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v24n2/book-blood-politics.html

Kansas City Jewish Chronicle Review of Blood and Politics

Written by Rick Hellman | 15 May 2009

Kansas City Jewish Chronicle article on Leonard Zeskind
May 15, 2009

simply click on the following URL / URI:

http://www.kcjc.com/200905158462/news/throwing-the-book-at-racists.html#pc_82

Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

Written by Bill Berkowitz | 27 April 2009


RDBook: Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama
By Bill Berkowitz
April 27, 2009

What’s a white racist to do these days? A new book examines the history of white nationalism as it has moved from the fringe to the mainstream, describes the religious roots of the movement, and alerts us to its political and social goals.
 
Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
By Leonard Zeskind
(Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009)

In the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, the deeply-held religious beliefs of an assortment of white nationalists became the scaffolding for a broad, and often violent, movement of racists and anti-Semites. ...

To read the rest of the story, which is an interview with Leonard Zeskind and a review of Blood and Politics, go to http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rdbook/1362/great_article_!/

 

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