In this timely book on the rise of the global right, Augusta DellOmo uncovers the largely ignored far-right networks that mobilized to save South Africas racist regime in the 1970s and 80s. Saving Apartheid is original, insightful, and vitally important history. -- Nicole Hemmer, author of Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the motivations and constructions of global far-right networks. DellOmo deftly moves the literature beyond those who successfully organized against apartheid to reveal the ordinary peoplefrom conservative Christians to Black Bantustan leaderswho united across the Atlantic to defend it. -- Jill E. Kelly, author of To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 18001996 This is a compelling and comprehensive study. Dell'Omo deftly draws together primary sources from a range of archives to uncover the networks connecting the pro-apartheid movement to the global far-right and white supremacist movements of the 1990s, clearly and cogently illuminating the tactics and rhetoric of these groups. -- Lauren Frances Turek, author of To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations This riveting book moves beyond a predominantly state-centric understanding of Western support for apartheid to reveal how everyday actors in the United States and South Africa organized in defense of apartheid. While these campaigns eventually failed, they prefigured present-day transnational far-right networking. A crucial book for analyzing twenty-first-century global white supremacism. -- Christi van der Westhuizen, author of White Power and the Rise and Fall of the National Party
