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Part Three: The Apostle of Fascism

Behind the Bastards

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What's the Fuck?

Pierce is an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He and his wife had twins and they settled into what seemed like it would be a perfectly dull, normal, happy, healthy life. That changed when he began showing up at meetings of the John Birch Society. Pierce later wrote, until I was 30 years old, I had hardly given a thought to politics or social questions.

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