A riveting, jaw-dropping view of America's white supremacy movement.
In 1990, BLOOD IN THE FACE: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi
Skinheads, andthe Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to
uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the
American racist far-right movement. It told their story from the
insideout, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons,
rants, sermons, threats, policereports, and more. The accompanying
analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the
movement 's volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s,
insisting that the groups making up this "fringe" culture were too
powerful--and too much a part of Americanculture--to be ignored or
dismissed.
When the book 's prescience about the dangers of the
racist far-right became manifest in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a
second edition of BLOOD IN THE FACE was released with a new
introduction charting the rise of the Militia Movement to which Timothy
McVeigh and his co-conspirators were connected. Since then, both the
book and the documentary film that accompanied its release (also titled
BLOOD IN THE FACE), have earned cult followings.
In the past 25
years, Ridgeway 's final warning--that the "fringe was becoming part of
the fabric" of American politics and culture, have come to chilling
fruition in the rise of the Tea Party, the racist backlash against the
presidency of Barack Obama, the resurgence of anti-immigrant Nativism,
the growth of racist far-right media, and the election of Donald Trump
with the thunderous support of white nationalists.
A classic overview of the rise of modern-day white nationalism
Trump has given the racist far right one of its biggest boosts since the civil rights era of the 1960s.
THe book has been completely updated to meet the current moment of racial unrest and the dangerous rise in white supremecy.
In
this new book--also titled BLOOD IN THE FACE, but with a new subtitle
and more than 50 percent new, original material--Ridgeway revisits and
revises the earlier book with an eye toward the insights it holds for
the present.
