A review by booksandcatsgalore
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew

informative slow-paced

3.5

This book is informative and appears to be well researched and sourced. One of the challenges is keeping all the people straight. There are so many people, and so many white power organizations, many with very similar names (KKK, KKKK, CKKKK, etc) that it becomes almost impossible to remember who is who. Part of the premise of her book is that these supposedly distinct groups are much more intertwined than the public or law enforcement realizes because people often move between groups, create spin off groups, or marriage between members of different groups. I will have to take her word for it since it was impossible to follow. Also, this book was published in 2018 but basically ends with the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing in 1995. There is an epilogue that makes a brief general reference to the Trump campaign and the increase in hate crimes since 2016. Leaving off the story in 1995 doesn't really make sense.
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