Choices, Choices

I’m in that glorious time between Popes…er, between the period of time when classes are over, but finals have yet to be turned in. As we have finished up Kaysing’s Moon landing denial book, I have no idea where to turn to next. Do I work on a present-day book, something from the recent past, or something from the distant past? Since this project can take over a year, I get a little gun shy about what kind of book I want to live with. I will present three different titles that you can comment on as a vote. I have been cross posting this blog across three different platforms so I’ll take that winner, although very few people actually comment, so your vote could be the winner.

The first candidate is “The Secret Destiny of America” by Manly P. Hall. This is the shortest book on our list. Hall was an esoteric conspiracy theorist obsessed with the idea of a glorious fate for the United States. This volume was written in 1944.

The second is the “The Turner Diaries,” by Andrew McDonald whose real name was William Luther Pierce. This book is unique to us because it is fiction…in that, it’s a novel. This book is notorious in that it’s very racist, misogynistic, and homophobic; and it has a body count. This was a book that directly inspired Timothy McVeigh to commit the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. There are some other murders associated with it as well.

The third candidate is “The Plot Against Civilization” by Nesta Webster. Webster was a British historian, fascist, and probably the single person most responsible for reviving the Illuminati conspiracies in middle of the 20th century. She was an advocate of the Protocols as well as being staunchly anti-German as well. The 1930s/40s must have been very odd for her. This book was originally published in 1921.

We will begin the next book next week after I’ve pulled my hair out from grading papers. All three books are available on the Internet Archive, and I’ll be using the PDF versions of each for page numbers. 

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