E— Taylor Klahn views the cover of ‘Having People Over’ by Chelsea Fagan, a book Klahn found on a bench at the base of Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on Sunday, May 31, 2026, in San Francisco, California.

As a teenager, Klahn remembers being told to read literature rooted or associated with white nationalist movements by older, fellow gang members; like William Luther Pierce’s ‘The Turner Diaries’, and Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’. “It’s smoke and mirrors, man,” Klahn said. Now, he indulges in history books, which he humanized the people he was taught to hate. For Klahn, it helped him understand that “everybody wants the same thing, to have a good life and provide for your loved ones.”