The Secret War Against Hate

Most Americans believe the end of World War II ushered in a new era of tolerance. History tells a very different story.

In The Secret War Against Hate, celebrated historian Steven J. Ross shatters that comfortable myth with a meticulously researched account of what actually unfolded in postwar America. Antisemitism and racism didn’t retreat after the Allied victory; they surged. The number of organized hate groups more than doubled between 1940 and 1946. Violence erupted across cities. And four men, Emory Burke, J.B. Stoner, James Madole, and George Lincoln Rockwell were actively working to “finish the job Hitler had begun.”

These were not fringe voices operating in isolation. They built networks, launched coordinated attacks on Jewish and African American communities, and constructed a domestic terror infrastructure that most of the country never knew existed. That’s the dark core of this book, and it hits with the weight of a history that has been buried in the shadows for far too long.

But The Secret War Against Hate by Steven J. Ross is not only a story of villainy. It’s a story of resistance. Arnold Forster of the Anti-Defamation League, George Mintzer of the American Jewish Committee, and James Sheldon of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League led a covert, years-long campaign infiltrating, monitoring, and dismantling these hate networks while putting their own safety on the line. Their victories were real. Their names, until now, were nearly forgotten.

Ross, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles, writes with the precision of a scholar and the momentum of a thriller. He draws an unmistakable line from postwar extremism to today’s radical right because, as this book makes undeniably clear, leaders may come and go, but the ideas persist.

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