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Part Three: The Apostle of Fascism

Behind the Bastards

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Carto and Pierce's Battles With the National Alliance

William Pierce and a sizable herd of National Socialists. They'd started hovering around the Liberty Lobby like flies on the rotting corpse of George Wallace's presidential ambitions. The fighting between Pierce and Carto just underscored how unsuccessful Pierce's efforts to build a national front had been. When he was invited to speak at George Washington University in February of 1972, Pierce couldn't gather more than two dozen students. Anti-fascist showed up and threw raw eggs at him and his men. That, uh, said, yeah, that egg boy.

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