The Last Widow — References
For further reading on the topics addressed in The Last Widow, here are some of the sources I used as part of my research for the story.
FILM & PODCASTS
ProPublica/Frontline: Documenting Hate: Chartlottesville
ProPublica/Frontline: Documenting Hate: The New American Nazis
Frontline: Left Behind America
American Experience: Ruby Ridge
American Experience: Oklahoma City Bombing
Bundyville (podcast)
Slate Presents: Standoff/What Happened at Ruby Ridge (podcast)
Waco: the Rules of Engagement (movie)
BOOKS & READING
Antifa, the Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
Militant Anti-Facism: a Hundred Years of Resistance by M. Testa
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Every Knee Shall Bow: the Truth and Tragedy of Ruby Ridge and the Randy Weaver Family by Jess Walter
Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph and the Legacy of American Terror by Maryanne Vollers
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why it Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing by Lou Michael
Siege: the Collected Writings of James Mason (the Internet Archive)
The University of Kansas Libraries Kenneth Spencer Research Library Papers of James N. Mason
White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell
Industrial Society and its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks and White Trash became America’s Scapegoats by Jim Goad
These Truths: a History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
The Measure of Hate on 4Chan by Andrew Thompson, Rolling Stone (May 10, 2018)
All-American Nazis by Janet Reitman Rolling Stone (May 2, 2018)
US Law Enforcement Failed to see the Threat of White Nationalism by Janet Reitman NY Times Magazine (Nov 3, 2018)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper
The Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Vaccines on Trial: Truths and Consequences of Mandatory Shots by Pierre St. Clair
Unvaccinated: Why Growing Numbers of Parents are Choosing Natural Immunity for Their Children by Forrest Maready
Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism by Peter J. Hotez
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller