“Gelin (The Internet Is Broken), an award-winning author and U.S. correspondent for Dagens Nyheter, a national newspaper in Sweden, has assembled a wealth of research, including personal interviews with modern players on both sides of the political spectrum, about how racism is a threat to American democracy… Readers will be alarmed by the implications Gelin infers for the future of the United States. Recommended for all academic and larger public libraries”

– Library Journal, Starred Review

“If you wondered why a man like Donald J. Trump could be once again elected to a presidency he so thoroughly soiled the first time around—and win by a majority of voters—then you need to read The White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy by Martin Gelin. If you wonder if we are losing our traditional American democracy and seeing it replaced with totalitarian attitudes in an increasing percentage of the American populace, then you need to read The White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy by Martin Gelin. This seminal, exceptional, and ground-breaking study is especially and unreservedly recommended for all community library and college/university library Contemporary American Political Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.”

– Midwest Book Review

“A stunning illumination of American history.”

– Martin Hägglund, Yale University, author of This Life

"This is the book of the year."

– Journalisten Magazine

"It is knowledgeable, it is important, it is a shocking read.”

– Aftonbladet

“A magnetic depiction of racism in the United States. A classic.”

– Göran Greider, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

“What a darkly marvelous book this is. It will be hard to find a more learned, more sympathetic, and more urgent examination of the imperiled democratic project known as the United States.”

– Joseph O'Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award Winning author, and contributor to the New York Review of Books

“A spirited examination of the impact of racism on American history—including chapters of our national experience that have been all too often ignored.”

– Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

“Martin Gelin has written an important book on race relations in the United States. I am impressed by his erudition and ability to synthesize academic research findings.”

– Dag Blanck, director of the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University

“Just as Alexis de Tocqueville concluded in the 1830s that our dehumanization of Black people was incompatible with American virtues of freedom and liberty, Martin Gelin warns that we have not left that path This is not an optimistic book, but it is a hopeful one, and a good one.”

– Jason Stanford, author of Forget the Alamo