{"product_id":"2940170091089","title":"White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement - and How I Got Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error of his ways and abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to \"protect the white race from extinction.\" Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was arrested and sentenced to eleven years in prison, sixteen-year-old Picciolini took over the man's role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, launching his own propaganda band that performed at white power rallies around the world. But slowly, as he started a family of his own and a job that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he began to recognize the cracks in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss at the hands of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini realized too late the full extent of the harm he'd caused.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, \u003ci\u003eWhite American Youth\u003c\/i\u003e tells the fascinating story of how so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098241974512,"sku":"2940170091089","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170091089_p0.jpg?v=1763701612","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170091089","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}