Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream

Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream

By Leonard Zeskind. Parrar, Straus and Giroux.

For the past 40 years, white supremacists have lurked beyond the sidelines of American politics, fantasizing about power yet shunning the public eye. In this 600-page doorstop, Leonard Zeskind, a former factory worker and labor organizer who has become a single-minded watchdog of the racist right, offers a blinding dose of sunlight.

considers contem- porary Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and militia members and argues that they are in fact a single movement with...