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The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States

Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black US president, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio, TV, and online, the far right, Tea Party movement conservatives, and Republican activists found common ground. Figures such as Stephen Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Alex Jones, once rightly dismissed as cranks, now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism.

Investigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism, the violence of which in the last decade has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. The product of years of reportage, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump’s ties to the far right, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing aspects of American society.

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“The seemingly sudden reemergence of the far right in America has left many in a state of panic and bewilderment. Alt-America will be essential in helping us to comprehend the depth of its foundations in national life.”
—Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

“Over the last two decades, David Neiwert has been one of our finest analysts of the American far right, paying sustained, serious and careful attention to the seemingly fringe movements of conspiracy theorists and insurrectionists. Now it turns out these movements are not so fringe after all but have helped elect Donald Trump as president. This crisply written book, grounded in his solid reporting, tells the whole sordid story with clarity and force. More than anyone else, Neiwert understands that Trumpism has deep roots in American culture and history. In this book, he lays out those roots for all to see.”
—Jeet Heer, Senior Editor at the New Republic

“For over a decade, David Neiwert has been America’s canary in the coal mine—our national early-warning system on the spread of corrosive, eliminationist, right-wing hatred in our midst.”
—Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

“David Neiwert is among the most astute analysts of the contemporary right.”
—Joe Conason, author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

“Neiwert has not only earned his investigative chops over the past decade or so by exploring the dangerous side of right-wing extremism—he’s proven himself to be one of the more lyrical and elegant writers on the beat.”
—Daily Kos

“An alarming, well-researched account of how the far-right extremist underground became empowered in the era of Trump … A prescient discussion of one of the darkest issues facing America today.”
—Kirkus

“Offers the most comprehensive account of the United States’ renewed extremist cultures … Alt-America excites in its ability to connect the seemingly extraordinary alt-right to the broader culture of wing-nut conservatism, drawing white nationalism, 4chan, Donald Trump, Alex Jones and Fox News together into a wonky negaverse version of political life.”
—John Semley, Globe and Mail

About the Author

David Neiwert is a journalist and author and an acknowledged expert in American right-wing extremism. He has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Newsroom, and The Rachel Maddow Show. His work has also appeared in the American Prospect, the Washington Post, MSNBC, Salon, and other publications. His previous books include The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese-American Community, as well as And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border, which won the 2014 International Latino Book Award.

Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Verso (October 17, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786634236
ISBN-13: 978-1786634238
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.6 inches
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Important to understand the threat to America--now, supported at the highest level

ByElisa 20TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon October 13, 2017

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When I first red the title, I assumed that the author was writing about the alt-right and grated "Trump" into the title to sell some more books.

I was wrong. The rise of Donald Trump is absolutely central to this book about ht ealt-right--literally, from first page to last.

This is an important book, a real look at the far right in America and how it has been newly empowered thanks to the rise of Donald Trump. Most of it is about the growth of the alt-right during the Obama years, in response to a Democratic African American president. At some level, Trump got that this was his natural constituency, drawing his political appeal by becoming the defacto leader of the "birthers" back in 2011, demanding the black president "show his papers" (and even demanding to see his grades from Columbia and Harvard.) This dogwhistle helped keep a racist lie in mainstream coverage, only weakly challenged by the press--including when candidate Trump refused to talk about it "anymore" while neither admitting it was false nor apologizing for spreading the slur.

The far right has been around a long time as Netwert shows. As he says, "People who have studied the extremist right in a historical and socio-political phenomenaon in depth are acutely aware of a simple truth: America has been very, very lucky so far when it comes to fascistic political movements."

He concludes that "Trump is the logical end result of a years-long series of assaults by the American right, not just on American liberalism but on democratic institutions themselves.With Trump, the long-term radicalization of the right has come home to roost."

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The cause and effect of right-wing extremism

By.on October 14, 2017

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David Neiwert has been following the Alt-Right movement since its birth in the early 1990s. He details its history from a conspiracy theory born in the early 1990s to the election of Donald Trump as president.

The first one-third of the book traces the history of its supporters and the extreme violence some have committed, such as what happened in Ruby Ridge, Idaho; Waco, Texas; Oklahoma City. Pundits like Rush Limbaugh spent their on-air time bashing anything with Clinton. With more Americans buying computers and getting online, the spread of conspiracy theories, especially the New World Order in which the federal government would take on an authoritarian hold of the world hastened. The events of 9/11/01 further convinced many people not to trust any non-Christian, any non-white person.

9/11 happened around the same time an increasing number of Mexicans were coming illegally across the border, victims of President Clinton's passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. By 2004 the numbers of illegal border crossers had reached its zenith and concerned citizens, many of them nativists, took action. Glenn Beck, another right-wing pundit, rises to fame with his dramatic tears and acclaimed love for this country.

In late 2004 I moved to Arizona and retired from the US Army. I remember the Tombstone Militia and Chris Simcox's Minutemen here along the border (pp 80-86) the following year.

The second third of the book details the rise of the Tea Party and the Birther movement after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Fox News, by now the #1 cable news network, practically became the mouthpiece for the Tea Party. Neiwert stresses that Ron Paul, who ran as a Libertarian, is actually a far-right politician. The entire eight years of the Obama administration is consumed by the Tea Party, the growing surge of gun sales, and the rise of Donald Trump, thanks to online websites and social media. It's really no surprise that Trump won.

The last third of the book covers the Trump campaign and its many lies. Trump, himself created via the media, knew how to manipulate his audience.

Despite Trump being in the long title of this book, this is not a Trump-bashing book. Neiwert even states early on that many far-right people are educated and articulate. Neiwert also makes the distinction between a right-wing extremist and a conservative.

The one flaw of this book is the sometimes infinite lists of names of alt-right supporters, but that just goes to show how strong the movement has grown since its inception. This book chronicles its growth in great detail.

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ALT America: A Powerful Radical Force That Shapes American Politics....

Bymissmickee-bookreviewon October 23, 2017

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ALT America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, written by investigative journalist, Seattle author and reporter David Neiwert who has studied political science for decades. This highly informative and expertly researched book defines the powerful forces that shape and define the ALT political movement-- its vision, agenda and ideology.

The history and rise of ALT politics began in the 1990’s with the gun enthusiastic far right “Patriots”. Eventually the movement would turn into the “Tea Party” fringe of the Republican Party. On June 15, 2015, Donald Trump began his presidential campaign blasting the incompetent political leaders that allowed our great nation to be beaten down by foreign trade. What was really apparent was his bigotry towards Latinos and other minorities in his boastful, arrogant, unapologetic narrative.

By 2015, domestic acts of terrorism had spiked considerably, the vast majority of these acts were committed by American right wing extremists. The most damaging was the attack and bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Most Americans identify terrorism with radical Islam or Al Qaeda, associated with 9/11. Neiwert pointed out that the Justice Department does not officially report or record acts of domestic terror committed by neo-Nazi’s, environmental extremists, militias, war groups or other isolated madmen.

The unusual views of the ALT include: Barack Obama is a secret Muslim conspiring with terrorist radicals to impose sharia law on Americans. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and a vast majority of politicians are a part of the elite that favor a New World Order and global government. Global Climate Change is a hoax, and a large amount of other conspiracy theories where white people are targeted by those who favor minorities that “suck away” taxpayer dollars and bring crime and disease to the USA. They favor a border wall that Donald Trump has proposed to keep them out.

The powerful prejudice against racial and ethnic minorities including the LGBT population and religious minorities are the backbone of the ALT agenda. The white supremacists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, xenophobes, misogynists and paranoid conspiracy theorists were embraced by Donald Trump, drawn from the fringe, and into mainstream politics. However, when a barrage of the anti-Semitic hate mail and messages appeared on social media, Trump remained strangely silent.
**With thanks and appreciation to Verso Books via NetGalley for the DDC for the purpose of review.

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Okay, certainly. But too often tendentious and not well edited.

This is okay, but nothing special. Too often, it’s tendentious: the author, who is throughly convinced of the soundness of his interpretation and conclusions, doesn’t really...Read more

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Author David Neiwert has been following the radical right for several decades and it shoes. He is able to trace the roots and metamorphosis of white-hooded deviants into...Read more

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Fairly good history of the Radical Right in America

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Thorough and perceptive

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