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Dragons of God: A Journey Through Far-Right America

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Mr. Coppola seems significantly more concerned with promoting his own "bravado" for simply talking with those in the far right movement. He provides no insight into how and why the movement survives.Basically a superficial and self-promoting book of little consequence. Don't waste your time and money.

I got into this book it was authentic and vincent actually tried to get to know each indivdual although my personal opinion and the feeling I got through his writing and words that he did not respect their opinions. That is the problem we expect them to respect our opinions but not willing to respect theirs. I also got the feeling that he was biased due to his immigrant background himself.

This book doesn't grasp many of the issues that have driven many Americans into periferal groups in order to magnify their voice in the system. The book also fails to outline the fundamental causes which alienate many Americans from the mainstream method of political discourse. In order to understand the Militia phenomenon, one must assume that their is a current threat to the survival of our personal freedoms eminating from the government that is supposed to protect our civil rights.

This is a great book for one who wants a brief overview of the far-right extremist groups out there. Many of these groups are very scary but their strength comes out in numbers and there are so many philosophical differences between them that chances are slim of a wide scale uniting of forces. Still, the Oklahoma bombing is an example of what just a couple of them can do. The author gives a nice overview of these groups in a 185 page book that's written in a quick-read style that gives away his background as a newsweek reporter. For an in-depth analysis you must go elsewhere.