Bring The War Home

Author : Kathleen Belew
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674237698

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Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew Pdf

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 gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits. Belew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.

Author : Jeremy Peter Varon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520930957

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Bringing the War Home by Jeremy Peter Varon Pdf

In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, this book reconstructs the motivation and ideology of violent organizations active during the 1960s and 1970s. Varon conveys the intense passions of the era--the heat of moral purpose, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary triumphs. Varon's compelling interpretation of the logic and limits of dissent in democratic societies provides striking insights into the role of militancy in contemporary protest movements and has wide implications for the United States' current "war on terrorism." Varon explores Weatherman and RAF's strong similarities and the reasons why radicals in different settings developed a shared set of values, languages, and strategies. Addressing the relationship of historical memory to political action, Varon demonstrates how Germany's fascist past influenced the brutal and escalating nature of the West German conflict in the 60s and 70s, as well as the reasons why left-wing violence dropped sharply in the United States during the 1970s. Bringing the War Home is a fascinating account of why violence develops within social movements, how states can respond to radical dissent and forms of terror, how the rational and irrational can combine in political movements, and finally how moral outrage and militancy can play both constructive and destructive roles in efforts at social change.

Author : Kathleen Belew,Ramon A. Gutierrez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520382503

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A Field Guide to White Supremacy by Kathleen Belew,Ramon A. Gutierrez Pdf

It is not a matter of argument among the vast majority of scholars, but of demonstrable fact. White supremacy includes both individual prejudice and, for instance, the long history of the disproportionate incarceration of people of color. It describes a legal system still predisposed towards racial inequality even when judge, counsel, and jurors abjure racism at the individual level. It is collective and individual. It is old and immediate. Some white supremacists turn to violence, but there are also a lot of people who are individually white supremacist-some openly so-and reject violence. This Field Guide proposes that a better understanding of hate groups, white supremacy, and the ways that racism and patriarchy have braided into our laws and systems can help people to tell, and understand, better stories. .

Author : Mary L. Dudziak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199315857

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War Time by Mary L. Dudziak Pdf

Mary Dudziak's original analysis of American wartime and its effect on law, policy, and our ideas about time itself, now available in paperback.

Author : Keith Beattie
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814786109

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The Scar That Binds by Keith Beattie Pdf

At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of "the wound that will not heal." References in various contexts to veterans' attempts to find a "voice," and to bring the war "home" were also common. Gradually, an assured and resilient American self-image and powerful impressions of cultural collectivity transformed the Vietnam war into a device for maintaining national unity. Today, the war is portrayed as a healed wound, the once "silenced" veteran has found a voice, and the American home has accommodated the effects of Vietnam. The scar has healed, binding Americans into a union that denies the divisions, diversities, and differences exposed by the war. In this way, America is now "over" Vietnam. In The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam war and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound," "the voice" of the Vietnam veteran, and "home." The analysis of each theme draws on a range of sources, including film, memoir, poetry, written and oral history, journalism, and political speeches. In contrast to studies concerned with representations of the war as a combat experience, The Scar That Binds opens and examines an unexplored critical space through a focus on the effects of the Vietnam War on American culture. The result is a highly original and compelling interpretation of the development of an ideology of unity in our culture.

Author : Nicholas Buccola
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691210773

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The Fire Is Upon Us by Nicholas Buccola Pdf

Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2019.

Author : Sarah E. Wagner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674243613

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What Remains by Sarah E. Wagner Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Nearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans—and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of America’s missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who work to identify the dead using bits of bone unearthed in Vietnamese jungles to the relatives who press government officials to find the remains of their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America’s most fraught war. Every generation has known the uncertainties of war. Collective memorials, such as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, testify to the many service members who never return, their fates still unresolved. But advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace—a tooth or other fragment. These new techniques have enabled military experts to recover, repatriate, identify, and return the remains of lost service members. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones’ sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.

Author : Dale Maharidge
Publisher : Highbridge Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1622311728

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Bringing Mulligan Home by Dale Maharidge Pdf

A son's quest to find the members of his father's Marine company leads to a deeper understanding of the devastating Pacific battles of WWII--and the haunted men who came home from them.

Author : David Halberstam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:864836199

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The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam Pdf

Author : Andrew MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1326195905

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The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald Pdf

What will you do when they come to take your guns? Earl Turner and his fellow patriots face this question and are forced underground when he U.S. government bans the private possession of firearms and stages the mass Gun Raids to round up suspected gun owners. The hated Equality Police begin hunting them down, hut the patriots fight back with a campaign of sabotage and assassination. An all-out race war occurs as the struggle escalates. Turner and his comrades suffer terribly, hut their ingenuity and boldness in devising and executing new methods of guerrilla warfare lead to a victory of cataclysmic intensity and worldwide scope. The FBI has labeled The Turner Diaries "the bible of the racist right." If the government had the power to ban books, this one would he at the top of its list. The Turner Diaries is the most controversial book in America today-and it's a book unlike any you've ever read!

Author : Jeremy Varon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520230323

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Bringing the War Home by Jeremy Varon Pdf

In this comparison of left-wing violence in the US and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals turned to armed struggle in efforts tooverthrow their states.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-27T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669367208

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Summary of Kathleen Belew's Bring the War Home by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The war worked to radicalize and arm paramilitary groups in the post–Vietnam War period. It brought racism, military training, weapons proficiency, and a readiness to continue fighting home with many veterans. #2 The Vietnam War was also distinct from other wars in that it was a conflict with a local, civil conflict and an enemy comprised of highly motivated guerrillas and partisan soldiers. This created high levels of despair among the troops. #3 The Vietnam War completely changed the way Americans viewed their military. It was the first real test of an integrated army, and the racial violence that plagued soldiers of color in combat and at home signaled the incompleteness of this transformation. #4 The discourse surrounding the Vietnam War shifted in the 1980s to emphasize the mistreatment of veterans by the government and by civil society. The idea that the nation had wrongly rejected, failed to honor, and impugned veterans created an emphasis on healing and memorialization.

Author : Barry S. Willdorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 097130260X

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Bring the War Home! by Barry S. Willdorf Pdf

Author : Rosalyn Deutsche,Elena Volpato,Martha Rosler,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300230277

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Martha Rosler by Rosalyn Deutsche,Elena Volpato,Martha Rosler,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

The politically engaged work of Martha Rosler is fascinating and provocative; this wide-ranging survey brings timely insights at a moment of resurgence for political activism and feminism.

Author : Bruce Hoffman,Jacob Ware
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231558808

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God, Guns, and Sedition by Bruce Hoffman,Jacob Ware Pdf

Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither novel nor unprecedented. They are the latest flashpoints in a process that has been unfolding for decades, in which vast conspiracy theories and radical ideologies such as white supremacism, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and hostility to government converge into a deadly threat to democracy. God, Guns, and Sedition offers the definitive account of the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States—and how to counter it. Leading experts Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware trace the historical trajectory and assess the present-day dangers of this violent extremist movement, along with the harm it poses to U.S. national security. They combine authoritative, nuanced analysis with gripping storytelling and portraits of the leaders behind this violence and their followers. Hoffman and Ware highlight key terrorist tactics, such as the use of cutting-edge communications technology; the embrace of leaderless resistance or lone-wolf strategies; infiltration and recruitment in the military and law enforcement; and the movement’s intricate relationship with mainstream politics. An unparalleled examination of one of today’s great perils, God, Guns, and Sedition ends with an array of essential practical recommendations to halt the growth of violent far-right extremism and address this global terrorist threat.