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"The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths...
2) Lucky you
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English
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JoLayne Luck enlists the help of investigative journalist Tom Krone to chase down Bodean Gazzer and his sidekick Chub, the two men who stole JoLayne's winning lottery ticket in order to set up their own underground militia group in Florida.
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Sheriff Chris Cherry novels volume 2
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English
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As the law in Big Bend County, Sheriff Chris Cherry is struggling to remake and modernize his department while staring down a town unwilling to change and the harsh limits of his badge. But it's only when a local river guide is brutally and inexplicably murdered that the novice sheriff truly understands just how tenuous his hold on that badge really is. And nothing can prepare Chris for the high cost of crossing dangerous men such as John Wesley...
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"In THE HATE NEXT DOOR, retired police officer and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network, Matson Browning, tells the incendiary story of his time undercover in hate groups across Arizona. He also traces the rise and fall of J.T. Ready, a white supremacist, militia member, and later, elected official and murderer. Through it all, Browning illuminates the sociopolitical factors shaping the modern white supremacy movement, and exposes the varied...
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Grant County volume 6
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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When Detective Lena Adams becomes a suspect in an horrific murder she flees into the shadow of her past, a shocking underworld of bigotry and brutality that only her superior, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver and his wife Sara can free her from.
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"For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of na��vete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers" -- the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media...
8) Hollow fires
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2022.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out ― with military precision ― an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 8
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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305 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Folk-art expert Benni Harper is thrilled to be back in Sugartree, Arkansas, with her friend Elvira, who's this close to getting engaged to Benni's cousin. But Benni's got a bad feeling that she just can't shake, and soon she knows why. Racism has come to Sugartree and it's rearing its ugly head as the merger of two churches with racially mixed congregations comes under fire, and the first black woman to run for mayor faces opposition from a gang of...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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x, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets. Jeffrey Toobin details how McVeigh's principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and documents, including detailed communications between McVeigh...
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Goldmill Group
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[2015]
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x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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At 14 years old, Christian Picciolini, a bright and well-loved child from a good family, had been targeted and trained to spread a violent racist agenda, quickly ascending to a highly visible leadership position in America's first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. Just how did this young boy from the suburbs of Chicago, who had so much going for him, become so lost in extremist ideologies that would horrify any decent person? 'Romantic Violence: Memoirs of...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show -- already regarded as the "the leading light" of the burgeoning white nationalist movement. "We can infiltrate," Derek once told a crowd of white nationalists. "We...
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2020.
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English
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"An examination of the history of the author's family and its ties to white supremacist movements."-- Provided by publisher
Sifting through family lore about "our Klansman" as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night...
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