This is the terrifying story of the most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan first rode a century ago. The Silent Brotherhood attracted seemingly average citizens with their call for pride in race, family, and religion and their mission to save white, Christian America from a communist conspiracy. Here is how they became criminals and assassins in their effort to establish an Aryan homeland. 8-page photo insert.
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This is the terrifying story of the most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan first rode a century ago. The Silent Brotherhood attracted seemingly average citizens with their call for pride in race, family, and religion and their mission to save white, Christian America from a communist conspiracy. Here is how they became criminals and assassins in their effort to establish an Aryan homeland. 8-page photo insert.
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Very good in Good jacket. xiii, 419 p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket has a small tear at the bottom back near the spine. This is the terrifying story of the most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan first rode a century ago. The Silent Brotherhood attracted seemingly average citizens with their call for pride in race, family, and religion and their mission to save white, Christian America from a communist conspiracy. Here is how they became criminals and assassins in their effort to establish an Aryan homeland. When a white supremacist gunned down outspoken Denver talk radio host Alan Berg in 1984, it inadvertently exposed a network of domestic extremists-a story told in a movie premiering this weekend. The film is based on the 1989 book "The Silent Brotherhood, " written by then-Rocky Mountain News reporters Kevin Fly and Gary Gerhard. Fly, who joined the Rocky in 1981 after working at a newspaper in south New Jersey, was a government affairs reporter when Berg was killed. Berg was Jewish, liberal and unafraid to take on anyone on the air-including the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups. He had just pulled into his driveway and stepped out of his Volkswagen Beetle when a hail of bullets cut him down. "The very next day, both newsrooms-the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post-put great teams of reporters on the case, " Fly said. "It was probably one of the most notorious murders in Denver's history." Working primarily with Gerhard and another reporter, John Accra, Fly crisscrossed the country to tell the story of Berg's murder and the white supremacists who carried it out. His first trip took him to Chicago, where-with help of local reporters-managed to learn the secret location of Berg's funeral. "The funeral for Alan Berg was intended to be super secure because at that point, no one knew who had killed him, " Fly said. "It was clearly a message killing-13 slugs from a machine gun. And so the wraps were kept around very tightly." At the cemetery, Fly met the funeral director, said he would not bother the family, and watched from a short distance away as five people said goodbye to Berg-his ex-wife, his mother, his sister and brother-in-law, and his nephew. That night, Berg's brother-in-law invited Fly to interview the family. It was the first of many scoops he and his colleagues earned as they pursued the story not only of Berg's murder but of the group behind it. Known as "The Order" and "The Silent Brotherhood, " the group pulled numerous bank heists and armored car robberies as part of its plan to launch a revolution and build an Aryan homeland. The man who started the group, Robert Jay Matthew's, died in a confrontation with federal agents on Whidbey Island near Seattle, and other members of the group went to prison. "When it was all over, we thought, somebody's got to tell this story of who these people were and how they got involved in this and why did they do this, " Fly said. Initially, he, Gerhard and Accra planned to write a book together. Before the project really gained steam, Accra bowed out, giving his research to Fly and Gerhard. The result was "The Silent Brotherhood, " published in 1989. Derived from a Kirk's review: Meticulously researched account of the white supremacist splinter group that briefly formed an American terrorist underground bent on revolution. This is a book by two authors whose collaboration began when the Rocky Mountain News assigned them to the Alan Berg assassination. Berg was the first name on the hit list of The Order, or The Silent Brotherhood, a cadre of racists recruited from such groups as Aryan Nations and the Klan, and held together by the powerful personality of Robert Jay Matthew's. The book begins as a biography of Matthew's, following his path to radical racism. Before being routed in a bullet-strewn siege, result of the largest FBI operation ever in the Pacific Northwest, the Silent Brotherhood amassed millions...
