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Review: Flynn and Gerhardt’s The Silent Brotherhood: The Chilling Inside Story of America’s Violent, Anti-Government Militia Movement
The Silent Brotherhood: The Chilling Inside Story of America’s Violent, Anti-Government Militia Movement Kevin Flynn Gary Gerhardt The first on the scene book about the “the Order”, a white supremacist criminal gang that robbed banks to fund the white power movement and was involved in the assassination of liberal radio DJ Alan Berg. Told is…
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Review: LaValle’s The Changeling
A book that starts out as a heartwarming tale of parenthood, turns real dark, real fast, and ends up a surreal exploration of a world of monsters, cults, and heartbroken parents in New York City. Kinda about parenthood, kinda about race and difference, kinda about the role of social media, and kinda about the immigrant…
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Review: Ferris’s Tools for Titans
Tools for Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Tim Ferris I’ll confess to being a fairly regular listener to the Tim Ferris podcast. While Ferris can be annoying at times and the whole can smell like techbro city, he is a good interviewer and his guests are often interesting…
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Review: Soundtracks to the White Revolution: White Supremacist Assaults on Youth Music Subcultures
Soundtracks to the White Revolution: White Supremacist Assaults on Youth Music Subcultures Devin Burghart, editor Almost more of a pamphlet than a book, this is an overview of the various genres of neo-fascists / white power music. I grew up in punk rock / underground music scene, and am, unfortunately, deeply familiar with many of…
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Review: Militias in America 1995: A Book of Reading and Resources
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…
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Review: Palmer’s Seven Surrenders
Seven Surrenders Ada Palmer The second book in Ada Palmers incredible Terra Ignota series. This one picks off exactly where Too Like the Lightning ended, and moves along at a blistering clip through scores of plot revelations, and extended explorations into the nature of gender, the place of violence in society, the complexities of competing…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Ashley N
Name Ashley N Sex: Female Age (at the time of first BQ): 34 Height: 5’6″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 118 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Richmond Tell us a little about the race. It was my first marathon, highly recommended by many running pals – great choice for…
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Book Review: Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann This is a story of a mass murder. The murdered were members of the Osage tribe of Native Americans, who, for a host of complex reasons tied to U.S.’s horrific treatment of Native Americans, ended up inexplicably wealthy owners…
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Review: Goldstein’s Janesville: AN American Story
The story of what happens to a small town in the industrial Midwest when the primary employer (here, an auto plant) closes down. We all know the broad outline of how this goes down – the fight to keep the plant open eventually fails, and the town spirals down economically. But how the town changes,…
Milo and the Calf 