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

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Moment Magazine reviews Blood and Politics

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Written by Rick Hellman | 21 October 2009

Moment magazine

September/October 2009

Racial Hatred: Made in America
Rick hellman
 
Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
By Leonard Zeskind


Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2009, $37.50, pp. 645
 
When, in April, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, issued a clumsily worded news release about the threat of right-wing extremism, it ignited a firestorm of indignation from talk radio and other Republican precincts. How dare she insinuate, they fumed, that flag-waving patriots, who might include military veterans or voters attracted to quixotic candidates and esoteric political theories, could pose a threat to civil tranquility?

Then, on May 31, Kansas state troopers arrested a man with prior involvement in the so-called “freeman” movement—which asserts the unique principle of individual sovereignty apart from any government—in connection with the assassination that morning of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller as he greeted people in the foyer of his Wichita church.

To anyone who had, by that point, read Leonard Zeskind’s Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream, the incident was eerily familiar. The vigilantism associated with the anti-abortion movement is just one of many threads Zeskind weaves


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