Book reviews: ‘American Reich: A Murder in Orange County; Neo-Nazis; and a New Age of Hate’ and ‘Winter: The Story of a Season’

‘American Reich: A Murder in Orange County; Neo-Nazis; and a New Age of Hate’ by Eric Lichtblau

The dispiriting nature of author Eric Lichtblau’s latest subject “might be reason enough to avoid this book,” said Wendell Jamieson in Air Mail. But to defeat darkness, “we must first understand it,” and the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist has dug deeply into how racial hatred has spawned deadly violence across the country in recent years, basing his conclusions on “rock solid” reporting. “Oscillating...