false 72992832 322110 5755825 0374109036 9780374109035 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255977215m/5755825.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255977215s/5755825.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5755825.Blood_and_Politics_The_History_of_the_White_Nationalist_Movement_from_the_Margins_to_the_Mainstream 3.65 17 A unprecedented, sweeping account of white nationalism's rise in America—from the MacArthur Award-Winning expert in the field  More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history of the white supremacist movement as it’s evolved over the last three-plus decades. Leonard Zeskind, an internationally recognized expert on the subject, ties together seemingly disparate strands—from neo-Nazi skinheads, to Holocaust deniers, to Christian Identity churches, to David Duke, to the militia and beyond. Among these organizations, two political strategies, mainstreaming and vanguardism, vie for dominance. Mainstreamers believe that a majority of white Christians will eventually support their cause. Vanguardists build small organizations of a highly dedicated cadre and plan a naked seizure of power. Zeskind shows how these factions have evolved into a normative social movement that looks like a demographic slice of white America, mostly blue-collar and working middle class, with lawyers and PhDs among their leaders. When the cold war ended, traditional conservatives helped birth a new white nationalism, most evident now among anti-immigrant organizations. With the dawn of a new millennium, they are fixated on predictions that white people will lose their majority status and become one minority among many—and the book concludes with a look to the future, elucidating the growing threat these groups will pose to coming generations. </DIV>]]> 2578062 3.65 17 9 2009 3 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 07:52:59 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 07:54:26 -0700 2009