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Book Review: The Alt-right: What Everyone Needs to Know by George Hawley
Though informative, George Hawley's book is stronger on description than analysis
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The Alt-right: What Everyone Needs to Know
George Hawley
(Oxford University Press, $16.95)
THE EXTREME right poses all too evident threats in Britain and elsewhere, as the recent attacks on mosques in Christchurch so tragically demonstrate. So this book provides a welcome compilation of information mainly, but not exclusively, focused on the development of the alt-right.
This is a challenging task. As the introduction explains, it is hard to write accurately about fast-moving social movements, especially secretive ones with mostly anonymous supporters. Thus statements about them can transition from being perfectly accurate to woefully outdated with shocking speed as far-right groups emerge, disappear and then re-emerge in different guises at different points in time.
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