The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground

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Summary: Good reading, but a little misleading
Review: "The Silent Brotherhood" is a well-researched and in-depth look at one of the most infamous domestic terrorist groups, The Order. It illustrates how alarmingly normal people can harbor deep and unrelenting passions against society.

You come a way with a sense of respect for both the FBI agents, who put a tremendous amount of effort into the case, and another strange sense of respect for Robert Jay Matthews, who becomes a sort of modern-day tragic hero. In the background, you have the other personalities of the far-right, who do provide quite the tapestry of characters.

I do fault the book on several fronts. One, I noticed a large number of typing errors into the end of the text. Two, since this was a second release, there should have been some updates on the other players. Third, the authors smear the entire militia movement with a broad brush. Most militias are nothing like the Order

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Summary: The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground
Review: Excellent read. The authors do a great job of reporting the facts surrounding Robert Matthews and those ill-fated souls around him.

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Summary: BY: ZARATHUSTRA
Review: Flynn and Gerhardt provide decent narrative and expository from both personal interviews (although they both failed to interview the broadest members of the Silent Brotherhood) and personal eyewittness accounts to bring you, the reader, at least a 15% portrayal of the actual story, while being 85% accurate in the telling.
Let the reader bear the burden of distilling the facts and lies of the parties involved; but none will come away from this book without feeling deep inside, a genuine appreciation of the nobility and courage of the men who comprise the modern day 'true believers' of racial tribalism, family, national survival, and the mystical interpolation of Blood. Read this to your children.