The Politics of Dancing

  J Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon  The Burglary: The discovery of J Edgar Hoover’s FBI. Betty Medseer. Chaos: Charles Manson the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties. Tom O’Neil & Dan Piepenbring The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the History of The United States of America. Gerald Horn.   Trump is the worst, but not the first manifestation of the American nightmare.  Given A close examination of American history how could it be otherwise. A Jekyll and Hyde nation in which the idealism incorporated in the Declaration of Independence, many of its signatures were slaveholders, co-existed with the grotesque industry of slavery and the genocide of the indigenous people of the land being occupied. The legacy of slavery on white consciousness has perhaps been given insufficient attention, though some of its manifestations in the form of the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and Jim Crow are as obvious as they are grotesque. The other tale is one of freedom and hope f