Among those he interviewed were Richard Butler, founder of Aryan Nations, and neo-Nazi Klansman Tom Metzger, head of the White Aryan Resistance.

His respondents see themselves as idealistic patriots out to save the nation from 'mud people'-African Americans, Jews, minorities, immigrants many of them preach racial warfare or violent confrontation with a federal government seen as under the sway of Zionists. His chilling report, notable for its crisp, restrained prose, sounds a wake-up call to mainstream America. He also has a son with his ex-wife, Alice Kim Cage.Former Newsweek reporter Coppola spent the last few years investigating the far-right extremist fringe, meeting white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, 'Identity Christians' who worship an Aryan Christ, survivalists and paramilitary groups in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Idaho, Colorado, Kansas and California. After a relationship of several years with Christina Fulton, a model, they split amicably and share custody of a son, Weston Cage (b. In his early 20s, he dated Jenny Wright for two years and later linked to Uma Thurman. His one-time passion for method acting reached a personal limit when he smashed a street-vendor's remote-control car to achieve the sense of rage needed for his gangster character in Клуб Коттон (1984). But a job reading lines with actors auditioning for uncle Francis' Бійцівська рибка (1983) landed him a role in that film, followed by the punk-rocker in Valley Girl (1983), which was released first and truly launched his career.

Initially studying theatre at Beverly Hills High School (though he dropped out at seventeen), he secured a bit part in Круті часи в Ріджмонт Хай (1982) - most of which was cut, dashing his hopes and leading to a job selling popcorn at the Fairfax Theater, thinking that would be the only route to a movie career. Cage changed his name early in his career to make his own reputation, succeeding brilliantly with a host of classic, quirky roles by the late 1980s. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent.

Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang.

Dragons of God by Vincent Coppola