THE NAZIS NEXT DOOR

Through the lens of eight central characters, THE NAZIS NEXT DOOR will tell the story of the threat infecting American society, where racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism have somehow captured the imaginations of kids, mostly male, educated, and white. Tracing the roots of this current crisis to the decade before September 11th, THE NAZIS NEXT DOOR will dive deep into the resulting radicalization of young white men during the end of the Obama administration and the beginning of the Trump era. Reitman will portray a nation divided along lines of racial, economic, gender, and religious differences and acknowledge that America's soul is going through a deep crisis. THE NAZIS NEXT DOOR is a book about this crisis, the dark place where America is headed and why it is important to put a stop to this dangerous development.

Janet Reitman, who in long form narrative is a melding of Janet Malcolm and Jon Krakauer, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. In her two decades as a journalist, her beat can be best described as covering extremism in all its forms. She has spent much of 2004-2005 in Iraq, and has produced definitive articles on The Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning as well as the radical Anonymous hackers Jeremy Hammond and “Sabu,” the so-called “Children of ISIS,” and The Church of Scientology.

Manuscript delivery: Fall 2019