One day in Bethlehem

massive Loosing the Bonds, which also chronicles relations between the United States and South Africa over centuries in at-times excruciating detail. (It was also written by a former anti-apartheid activist and weighs in at 895 pages.) While both books are clearly works of personal passion – White Supremacy Confronted is a book that Horne has been building toward his entire life – for the reader, more often than not, less is more. Regardless, Horne’s work is an important contribution, exploring the myriad ways in which communism and anti-communism became entangled in the long struggle for liberation in southern Africa.