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Eric Lichtblau is a Washington journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He was a reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times for nearly 15 years until 2017, and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years before that. He has also written for the New Yorker, TIME, USA Today, and other publications. He is the author of three nonfiction books, including The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men, a New York Times bestseller; Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice; and Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis. He lives outside Washington, DC.
""A maddening, disheartening, essential book about the surge of neo-Nazism over the last decade...American Reich compiles the crimes, counts the bodies and connects the dots between the growing number of these acts and the people who support them. There can be no more blind eyes to turn.""--Truthdig ""Oscillating between alarming and infuriating, American Reich takes readers on a cross-country journey to examine how racial hatred slithered, like tentacles, out of Orange County and into the rest of the country. It's all here in clean, unflinching prose.""--Air Mail ""Ambitious, deeply reported...American Reich is queasily of the moment, and evokes our present reality with frightening detail.""--The New York Times ""Deeply reported...Lichtblau's new investigation goes beyond the paradigm of Orange County to show a deeper cultural epidemic.""--Los Angeles Times ""Alarming...Lichtblau's elegant writing somehow makes the horrors he relates even more upsetting.""--Booklist ""Kaleidoscopic... a troubling window into the rage that animates America's shadowy far-right networks.""--Publishers Weekly ""Eric Lichtblau has expertly chronicled the scourge of hatred and bigotry in the United States, and his work makes clear that prejudice and racial extremism can only be confronted when they are fully understood. Through vivid storytelling and powerful examples, Lichtblau delivers an absorbing and eye-opening read. With the resurgence of Neo-Nazism in the current political climate, this book is both timely and indispensable. To understand the history of white supremacy is to understand a crucial element of American history itself - and that recognition is essential if we are to continue striving to make ours a more perfect union.""--Anthony D. Romero, American Civil Liberties Union executive director ""Fast-paced...The author's thorough reporting makes it plain that things are likely to become still worse, for, with Trump's second term, supremacists' numbers and actions are rising...A deep investigation into the plague of white nationalism.""--Kirkus ""If you ever wanted to know how the road to genocide is laid and paved, Lichtblau's book is a good place to start. For American culture right now it's a genuine canary in a coal mine. The seemingly inexplicable is successfully explained.""--Jon Fishman, co-founder of the band Phish and social activist ""We wonder how terrible, heartbreaking acts of hatred come about--and Lichtblau tells us in captivating detail that will keep you turning pages. This is an essential read for this time in our country, when only by knowing the genesis of hate do we actually have a chance to eradicate it.""--Jennifer Maisel, award-winning playwright ""Beautiful, sunny, sea-kissed Orange County, California may not seem a likely hotspot of neo-Nazi violence, but Eric Lichtblau's penetrating reporting uncovers its dark history, and exposes the continuing threat this far-right recruiting hub presents to its residents and the rest of the country. In American Reich, Lichtblau details the rising tide of hate crimes through a comprehensive examination of the lives of the perpetrators, the impact on survivors, and the efforts of law enforcement to curb these attacks.""--Mike German, fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, and former FBI special agent ""A brilliant, disturbing look into how the U.S. learned to love to hate again--and the many warning signs we've failed to heed.""--Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times columnist, 2025 Pulitzer finalist, and co-author of A People's Guide to Orange County ""Backed by a master class in investigative reporting, American Reich provides a brilliant, revelatory look at the forces of white hate that have been revived and unleashed on the nation by Donald Trump. Alarm bells go off on every page as Eric Lichtblau warns us about a looming and existential threat to democracy, one that is building even in affluent, diverse places like Orange County, California, home to Disneyland. There is no more urgent crisis facing America than white hate--and no more urgent book than American Reich.""--James Risen, author of The Last Honest Man: The CIA, The FBI, The Mafia, and The Kennedys--and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
