Book Report: Kansas City Library Meetup Fears White Nationalists

A scary book is a great idea for this time of year . . . The reality is that walk back to their cars might have been just as perilous as anything they were reading about . . . Either way, we share the narrative quote as we're also looking for an Autumn read that's slightly more challenging than midterm political fodder.

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More than 150 attended the forum at the Kansas City Public Library’s Plaza Branch. The event was part of a 10-city tour to mark the re-release this month of Kansas City author Leonard Zeskind’s 2009 book, ”Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream.”

The book, originally published in 2009 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is a comprehensive history of the movement as it evolved over several decades. Zeskind, founder of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, worked on the book for nearly 16 years. Supporters say the new paperback edition, released by Macmillan Publishers, is just as relevant today as when the book first came out.

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Kansas City forum warns of growing threats to democracy from white nationalists