Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream

Originally published to great acclaim in 2009, Blood and Politics is an unprecedented, sweeping history of white nationalism’s rise in America from a MacArthur Award–winning expert in the field.

Over decades of archival and in-person research, Leonard Zeskind explored the startling underworld of white supremacist organizations in the United States, from think tanks and publications to armed militia groups. Tracing a vast web of Holocaust deniers, Christian Identity churches, neo-Nazi skinheads, and high-profile figures like David Duke, Zeskind finds that these factions—once thought to be fringe extremists—have both deep roots and far-reaching ambitions.

Thorough, careful, and troublingly prescient, Blood and Politics is an essential study of American racism and a rallying cry for the ongoing fight against hate.