Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-08-15
Books mentioned on Part Three: The Apostle of Fascism
Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Chapter Three of Robert's. 'The War on Everyone.
Robert Evans discussed Blood and politics by Leonard Zeskind, Blue Book by John Birch Society, The Turner Diaries by WILLIAM LUTHER. PIERCE, and Unintended consequences by John Ross.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Blood and politics
Blood and Politics by Leonard Zeskind is a comprehensive historical study documenting the rise and evolution of white nationalism and the radical right in the United States.
Discussed“Leonard Zeskin, author of the crucial book Blood and Politics, suspects her background heavily influenced the fascist that Pierce would become.”
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Blue Book
Discussed“Here's a line from one of their 1960s publications, The Blue Book, which William Pierce would certainly have read. Now, if the danger from the communist conspiracy were all we had to worry about, it would be enough.”
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The Turner Diaries
The Turner Diaries is a 1978 dystopian novel written by William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald that depicts a violent white supremacist revolution and the overthrow of the United States government.
Discussed“But the next year, 1975, William Luther Pierce introduced his first truly great innovation into the annals of right-wing terror. He started publishing a book in attack, a book titled The Turner Diaries. Oh, there it is. cuz I was wondering where they'd come in there. Yeah. Published in sections across several issues of Attack, the book is presented as”
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Unintended consequences
Unintended Consequences is a sprawling and controversial novel written by John Ross that deals with firearms history, government overreach, and radical resistance.
Discussed“The Turner Diaries became the ideological underpinninging of a vicious American insurgency, which eventually led to hundreds and hundreds of armed men around the country working actively towards the establishment of a white supremacist state, a problem that continues to this day. Now, The Turner Diaries inspired more than that, though, because it also inspired a whole new genre of”
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“Published in sections across several issues of Attack, the book is presented as a series of diary entries from a revolutionary. You might compare it to a Nazi answer to a Handmaid's Tale. And in fact, it was partly probably inspired by I think it actually predates that by a little bit.”