Vincent CoppolaDragons of God : A Journey Through Far-Right America
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[justify]Former Newsweek reporter Coppola spent the last few years investigating the far-right extremist fringe, meeting white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, "Identity Christians" who worship an Aryan Christ, survivalists and paramilitary groups in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Idaho, Colorado, Kansas and California. His chilling report, notable for its crisp, restrained prose, sounds a wake-up call to mainstream America. His respondents see themselves as idealistic patriots out to save the nation from "mud people"-African Americans, Jews, minorities, immigrants; many of them preach racial warfare or violent confrontation with a federal government seen as under the sway of Zionists. Among those he interviewed were Richard Butler, founder of Aryan Nations, and neo-Nazi Klansman Tom Metzger, head of the White Aryan Resistance. His report shows that in the 1990s, neo-Nazis have invaded "patriot" citizens' militias, infecting them with virulent anti-Semitic and racist beliefs and paranoid fantasies.
Vincent Coppola traces today's radical militia movement to its source: virulent right-wing extremism that emerged in the mid-'80s, most dramatically with the murder of talk radio's Alan Berg and a string of other spectacular crimes by neo-Nazis--the story that became Oliver Stone's Talk Radio. Dragons of God takes us into a forbidding country, but one we can no longer ignore.[/justify]