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Strange people on the Hill : how extremism tore apart a small American town /

"When the white nationalist group VDARE used dark money to purchase a historic castle overlooking Berkeley Springs in West Virginia, America's "cold civil war" spilled into this scenic tourist town. From behind the imposing stone walls of their castle, VDARE's Peter and Lydi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hayden, Michael Edison (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bold Type Books, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
White nationalism > West Virginia > Berkeley Springs.
Right-wing extremists > West Virginia > Berkeley Springs.
Political culture > United States > History > 21st century.
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations > History > 21st century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Nationalisme blanc > Virginie-Occidentale > Berkeley Springs.
Extrémistes de droite > Virginie-Occidentale > Berkeley Springs.
Radicalism
White nationalism
United States
West Virginia
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : for the living
  • The great replacement
  • A white man with money
  • What matters to us
  • Ghosts
  • High weirdness
  • A promise
  • American is burning
  • America's twenty-first-century Fort Sumter
  • In a town with all Whites
  • The land of the rednecks
  • The hidden prejudice that causes fear
  • Ruling-class angry apes
  • The motive, the means, and the proximity
  • Let his way be dark and slippery
  • Next stop, America
  • Strange people on the Hill
  • You need to apologize to my wife
  • May you and yours get everything you deserve
  • Friends and enemies
  • Room-temperature vodka
  • The billion-year plan
  • In a dark place
  • Tropical fish
  • A long time to die
  • All kinds of evil people
  • The new materialists
  • Ten hyenas
  • Cursed town
  • Epilogue : 522 North, leaving Berkeley Springs.