 Lone Patriot: The Short Career of an American Militiaman
by Jane Kramer (Hardcover - June 2002)
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Product Details
- Hardcover: 320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x 8.60 x 5.72
- Publisher: Pantheon Books; (June 4, 2002)
- ISBN: 067944873X
- Amazon.com Sales Rank: 321,494
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Book Description
In the mid 1990s self-styled Patriot John Pitner gathered around him a ragtag band of discontents, all eager to avenge themselves against America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic. Fervently believing that a New World Order threatened their liberty and way of life, Pitner and his recruits prepared for confrontation until an FBI sting led to their arrests on conspiracy charges in 1997.
In Lone Patriot, acclaimed New Yorker correspondent Jane Kramer delivers an intimate look into the life and mind of a militia leader and his followers, exploring the volatile mix of personalities and politics that shapes their extreme worldview. Through a series of exclusive interviews with them both before and after, Kramer paints an incredible portrait of a rural America that is rarely glimpsed but strikingly relevant.
From the Back Cover
"Jane Kramer has bravely gone into the belly of a beast which is alive and well in America and which most of us prefer not to acknowledge. We avoid looking where she takes us, in Lone Patriot, at our peril." -- Bob Kerrey
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