Understanding white power as a social movement is a project both of historic relevance and of vital public importance. Knowledge of the story of white power activism is integral to preventing future acts of violence and to providing vital context to current political develop,tents. Indeed, to perceive the movement as a legitimate social force, and it ideologies as comprising a coherent worldview of white supremacy and imminent apocalypse--one with continued recruiting power--is to understand that colorblindness, multicultural consensus, and a post racial society were never achieved. Violent, outright racism and antisemitism were live currents in these decades, waiting for the opportunity to resurface in overt form. This story renders legible the many ways that racial ideology and incessant warfare have underwritten political issues that extend well beyond the fringe. It powerfully reveals how white power rhetoric and activism, time and again, have influenced mainstream U.S. policies, and most especially in the aftermath of war.Id. at 239.
Vegas Tenold, Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America (New York: Nation Books, 2018).
