Alan Berg was one of the progenitors of AM talk radio. He was free-wheeling with his opinions and often extremely rude to his listeners, hanging up on them if he got bored. He was also Jewish.

In 1984, Alan Berg was killed in his driveway by neo-Nazi, "white identity" followers because he was Jewish.

Stephen Singular's writing style is that of a good detective story. Berg was a complex man, not easy to figure out, identifying as Jewish was pretty much at the bottom of his list of personal self-identification. Yet, he did not hide it and often discussed it on his radio show. Berg was also one of those radio personalities people either hated or loved. There was no inbetween with Berg.

Yet being Jewish got the ire up of David Lane and the other men who drove to Denver from their compound in Idaho specifically for the purpose of killing Berg. These men are less complex than Berg, with white supremacist at the top of their list of self-identification.

Well researched and written, Singular captures the perplexity caused by people who develop so much hate they would kill for it. ( )