The Turner Diaries
The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of National Alliance, a white nationalist group, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
The Turner Diaries has been referred to as “the bible of the racist right,” a “handbook for white victory,” and “a blueprint for revolution.” Pierce was the head of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, and the novel first appeared in serial form in the National Alliance’s publication, Attack!.
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The novel is written in the form of the diaries of a one-time electrical engineer, Earl Turner, supposedly unearthed near Revolutionary Headquarters in the one-hundredth year of the New Era. In the foreword, Turner is described as one of the “men and women whose struggle and sacrifice saved our race in its time of greatest peril.” The diaries describe a society that has completely deteriorated because of the powerlessness of its white citizens, as well as Turner’s patriotic fight to take the country back from a government dominated by Jews, African Americans, and other minorities.
Turner begins as a rank-and-file member of a group called “the Organization” and is later invited to join a secret elite faction called “the Order,” which wages a war of political terrorism against “the System” (the United States government). These acts of terrorism are designed to instigate a further crackdown on basic freedoms, thus creating an even more repressive environment, so that the Organization will gain sympathy and converts.