Stern's book is must-reading for students and teachers of the Holocaust. The book explains the history and the motives behind Holocaust denial. The author goes beyond this to offer a strategy for dealing with the deniers. Those who teach the Holocaust must be prepared to address this issue, and this book helps us to be ready. This book will become even more important as survivors and other eye witnesses are no longer able to tell their story.

I followed up 'Like a Hurricane' with this book. It reads quite easily, like a novel. It speaks of a case against several AIM members in Oregon. The author, Kenneth Stern, became involved in the case as a law student and thirteen years later was a bar certified attorney for one of the defendents. The book is clear on the events that took place and includes interesting discussions of people of and events surrounding the case, including Marlon Brando's role in AIM. One of the most interesting parts in near the end of the book where Stern describes the problems of Pine Ridge. He paints a wonderful, if awful, picture.

The only problem I had with the book was the use of dialogue. I will admit, that is part of what hooked me, but I was also leary of dialogue from more than a decade earlier. Overall, I felt it was a very good book.

Anyone who understands anything about the militia movement in america first knows that the american militia is not limited to a bunch of white hicks living in the woods. The american militia represents over 80 million lawfully armed citizens from every walk of life. For once Id like to see a completed work on the diversity and common purpose of this group as a whole and not such writings as this which is a feeble attempt to play upon the fears of people and make a buck in the process.

I bought this book because I had heard that I was written up in it. Sure enough, there were two different places that I came up in the book. In both places I was "quoted" with no source to back up the "quote" and all the quotes were total fabrication by either the author or whomever the author used for his "source". I was NEVER the head of an un-organized or organized militia in Stevens County, and the only presentation that I did at the Colville Grange was an invocation. Apparently SOMEONE who is pretty liberal is trying to make folks in the public believe something that just is not so. And then of course there is the author who OBVIOUSLY has a bone to pick with anyone who doesn't go along with the status quo of statism and ra ra ra the government loves us retoric that is being shoved down our throats. Too bad some of the "quotes" that were attributed to me, didn't actually happen!

Stern's book does in journalistic fashion detail some of the "events" that have occured recently related to this fuzzy group known as the militia. However I would agree with most other reviewers here that this work proceeds from the desire to further alienate the already alienated and offers little in the way of allowing the reader to understand this phenomena. I'd recommend Dyer's Harvest of Rage for an understanding of this issue.