
Part Three: The Apostle of Fascism
Behind the Bastards
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The Turner Diaries
The Turner Diaries became the ideological underpinning of a vicious American insurgency. The book is essentially framed as a historical document, with researchers from Earl's future commenting on it. Although the novel's epilogue broadly hints at a Nazi orientation, the book never explicitly identifies the order with a specific movement. It also inspired a whole new genre of terrible right-wing fiction.
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