A Hundred Little Hitlers

By Elinor Langer,

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Book description

A riveting account of a skinhead killing and a chilling look at the world in which it happened

On November 12, 1988, a group of Portland, Oregon, skinheads known as East Side White Pride met for an evening of beer and racist banter. Later that night, they encountered three Ethiopians;…

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1 author picked A Hundred Little Hitlers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Harrowing, haunting, and utterly compelling, Langer’s superb investigation of the murder of an Ethiopian immigrant called Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads in Portland, Oregon, in 1988 always reminds me of the importance of good journalism, the demands of justice and the power of empathy.

It is a book of focused, local history with a much wider story to tell.

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