What a tome at nearly 550 pages.

The main thrust of the book follows Willis Carto, Yockeyan white nationalist fuhrer of Liberty Lobby (standing in for the Mainstreamers attempting to further normalize white supremacist talking points in US politics after WWII) and William Luther Pierce, little dictator of the National Alliance (standing in for the Vanguardists who thought to agitate the white population into immediately genocidal behavior). The book covers their endeavors, their overlaps, the growth of Holocaust denialism, various iterations of the KKK and a variety of other "white-ists" in and outside of US electoral politics and paramilitarism.

Additionally, I really appreciate the insights here into Christian Identity concepts of race and citizenship that bleed into the language of Posse Comitatus-adjacent movements and the origins / shape of the militia movement.

Anyway, there's a lot here and I feel like it certainly widens my understanding of the subject matter, though stopping coverage in the years just after 9-11 and the death of Pierce and collapse of Liberty Lobby and National Alliance. Also, i really appreciate the short chapters that kept both a thematic coverage and chronological progression, allowing a more ecological read than many other history books I've read.