Militias in America 1995: A Book of Reading and Resources

Institute of Alternative Journalism

I spent much of my twenties working, and volunteering in various bookstores. There’s much I don’t miss about those days the low pay, the drudgery, the customer service; but there are other parts of that life I remember fondly.

One of those parts was being so close to the book world that I could pick up things like this, a self published collection of investigations into the militia movement by a group of journalists who took a long, hard look at what was then burgeoning and important part of the ultra-right.

This came out in 1995 in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombings and dives deep into the world that produced Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Many of the important journalists investigating the ultra-left are featured here including James Ridgeway (who wrote Blood in the Face). Incredibly timely at the point of publication, but now largely a historical piece in the puzzle that brought us to where we are today.

Recommended for the anti-racist researcher.