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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: American Reich by Eric Lichtblau read by Gary Tiedemann
Description: From the Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Nazis Next Door
A deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California—“ground zero” for racial extremism—and the story of one brutal murder there that revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether for the country.
One night in early 2018, while he was home from college, an Ivy League student named Blaze Bernstein snuck out of his parents’ house in Orange County. Waiting for him in a car outside was an old high-school classmate: Sam Woodward...