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Bring the War Home
- The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out - with military precision - an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse.
In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists.The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits.
Belew's disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.
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- Andrew Bisset
- 10-01-21
Relevant to understand that this isn't new
Incredible well researched, this is in the top tier of books on this topic.
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- TomW
- 04-06-23
Good history, dire narration
This is a superb historical document which explains how we arrived at the current position.
However the narration is monotonous and mechanical, which detracts from the impact.
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- Lou Tribus
- 15-01-23
Fascinating book, monotonous narrations
This is a fascinating and important book - everyone should read it to understand what's happening in US politics today. However you should READ it, not listen to it. The narration is so monotonous that I almost didn't continue after the first chapter.
READ this book! Don't listen to it!
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- hp
- 13-06-24
Cogent, worrying analysis of an issue for our time.
When grievance narratives fostered by malign people intertwine with an experience of, or desire for, military training then the result can be horrific. This book explores this very well.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-10-19
Good but too boring.
Interesting but at the same time very long and boring. The reader read the whole book in same tone. Very hard to stay focused.
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