Thank you, Globe Pequot / Prometheus Books, for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Mr. Book just finished The White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy, by Martin Gelin.

This book will be released on January 21, 2025.

This was an excellent history of racism in the United States. The author started the book with an excellent and devastating critique of Thomas Jefferson and slavery. There were so many great chapters in this chapter, including ones on reconstruction, segregation, January 6, the “Lost Cause” revisionist history of the Civil War, the militarization of the police and so much more.

One sign of a great book is how much highlighting I did in the text. This one was off the charts.

I give this book an A+ and inducted it into the Hall of Fame. Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A+ equates to 5 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

I hope that this book is also released as an audiobook, so I can also listen to it.

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

Mr. Book finished reading this on October 9, 2024.