The Reeducation of a Racist: A review of Eli Saslow’s “Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist”

For the Los Angeles Review of Books, I reviewed “Rising Out of Hatred,” by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow. It’s the story of a young man raised in the heart of white nationalism — and expected to lead it into the next generation — who disavows the movement and goes on to speak out against its evils.