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Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin

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4.5

An interesting read but mostly well trodden ground at this point - but that's more my fault for taking 4 years to get around to reading it. 
The chapters on antisemitism and religion were the most interesting. I'm not American so didn't know about Henry Ford for eg and the idea of people turning to paganism as a link to a "white past" and because Christianity was "tainted by Jews" was a new one.
Citadel by Kate Mosse

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 41%.
Not my thing. The historical aspects were interesting but I could not care less about the codex etc.
Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

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4.0

An interesting and clearly extensively researched read. My only issue with it was that at times it was confusingly written. Eg. "Bevan had an attachment to local-authority structures being clearly identified with communities that he thought best for involving local people."
I don't think I would have noticed necessarily if I wasn't taking notes on it, but because I was there were a good few  times where I had to either stop and search for information about something from other sources, or just make a best guess.