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Author Zeskind, Leonard.

Title Blood and politics : the history of the white nationalist movement from the margins to the mainstream / Leonard Zeskind.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8 Z56    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  305.8009 ZESKIND    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8009 ZESKIND    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.8 ZES    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8 Z56    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  973.9 ZESKIND    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.800973 ZE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxiv, 645 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-621) and index.
Contents Prequel, 1955-1974 : Apprenticeship of Willis Carto -- William Pierce, national socialism, and the National Youth Alliance -- Part one: Emergence, growth, and consolidation, 1974-1986 : Turner Diaries and resurgence -- David Duke and a new Klan emerge -- Election of 1980: The Klan and Ronald Reagan -- Denying the Holocaust -- Survivalism meets a subcultural "Christian identity" -- Nation and race: Aryan nations, Nehemiah township, and Gordon Kahl -- Christian patriots after Gordon Kahl -- Birth of the first underground -- Enclave nationalism and the order -- Origin of the Populist Party and the break with Reaganism -- Europeans and Southerners at the Institute for Historical Review -- Part two: Mainstreamers and ballots take the lead, 1987-1989 : White riot in Forsyth County on King Day -- David Duke, the Democratic Party candidate -- Crackdown and indictment at Fort Smith -- Before the trial begins -- Seditious conspiracy goes to trial -- Pete Peters's family-style Bible camp for identity believers -- Elections 1988: David Duke and Pat Robertson out on the Hustings -- Populist Party meets in Chicago after David Duke wins a legislator's seat -- Skinhead International in Tennessee -- Part three: End of anticommunism, 1990-1991 : German unification and the reemergence of nationalism -- First Persian Gulf War and the realignment of the far right -- Collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of white supremacy -- Transatlantic traffic -- Part four: Movement matures, 1992-1993 : Duke campaign(s) and the Louisiana electorate -- Pat Buchanan runs through the Republican presidential primaries -- Populist Party goes with Bo Gritz -- FBI aims for Randy Weaver on Ruby Ridge -- After the shoot-out, the militia -- Clinton's first year and the culture war -- Inferno at Waco and Randy Weaver wins at trial -- Suicide in North Carolina and the birth of resistance records -- Willis Carto loses control of the Institute for Historical Review -- Part five: Against the new world order, 1994-1996 : Common law courts, partners to the militia -- Birth of American Renaissance -- Holocaust denial: to the Moscow station -- Elections 1994: An anti-immigrant voting bloc emerges -- Bell curve: Legitimizing scientific racism -- Oklahoma City bomb and its immediate aftermath -- Second underground collapses -- (Re)birth of the Council of Conservative Citizens -- Washington Times fires Sam Francis -- Elections 1996: Pat Buchanan roils the Republicans -- Part six: Mainstreamers and vanguardists at century's end, 1997-2001 : Carto dispossessed -- Resistance Records: Buying and selling in the cyberworld -- After the Oklahoma City bomber(s) are tried, the violence continues -- United States Congress and the Council of Conservative Citizens -- National Alliance remakes Resistance Records -- Liberty Lobby in bankruptcy court -- Millennium changes -- Elections 2000: The neo-confederate resurgence -- Pat Buchanan and the Reform Party -- Liberty Lobby fortress crumbles -- Part seven: Prolegomena to the future, 2001-2004 : After September 11, 2001 -- Anti-immigrant movement blossoms -- Willis Carto and William Pierce leave the main stage -- Penultimate moment -- Future.
Subject White supremacy movements -- United States -- History.
Nationalism -- United States -- History.
White people -- Race identity -- United States.
White people -- United States -- Politics and government.
Racism -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
ISBN 9780374109035 hardcover alkaline paper
0374109036 hardcover alkaline paper
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