RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksAn authoritative history ... Runstedtler, who combines an academic historian’s depth of knowledge with a novelist’s sense of story and character, cuts through McKay’s cardboard ... Hers is more than a basketball book, just as her subjects were more than basketball players.
Kathleen Belew
PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksBelew does the hard work of...revealing how white supremacists built a coalition of rural survivalists, urban skinheads, and anti-Semitic Christian Identity believers. The unified white power movement coalesced around stories not of triumph but of defeat ... The white power movement created a culture in which, as Belew writes, \'a suburban California skinhead might bear Klan tattoos, read Nazi tracts, and attend meetings of a local Klan chapter, a National Socialist political party, the militant White Aryan Resistance—or all three\' ... radical white extremism. Adding those three words to our political vocabulary would represent a small but important first step toward acknowledging that white supremacist violence emerges not from the disordered mind of a lone wolf but from a perceptible and ugly American movement.
