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A review by gregbrown
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
5.0
Excellent and maddening work on how the violence visited abroad during the Vietnam War returned home in the guise of the White Power movement.
Belew convincingly illustrates the broad sweep and interconnected nature of the underground movements, especially in the '80s when armed robberies provided an infusion of cash that movement leaders spread throughout the US. She also offers an abridged treatment of the anti-state turn in the '90s, culminating in the Oklahoma City bombing and Eric Rudolph's bombing spree later that decade.
And of course, you can draw your own connections to the movement's turn this century back to being friendly with — and even partially embedded in — state branches like the Border Patrol and local police.
Belew convincingly illustrates the broad sweep and interconnected nature of the underground movements, especially in the '80s when armed robberies provided an infusion of cash that movement leaders spread throughout the US. She also offers an abridged treatment of the anti-state turn in the '90s, culminating in the Oklahoma City bombing and Eric Rudolph's bombing spree later that decade.
And of course, you can draw your own connections to the movement's turn this century back to being friendly with — and even partially embedded in — state branches like the Border Patrol and local police.