National Alliance leader William Pierce told his biographer that he was inspired to write The Turner Diaries by an earlier novel, The John Franklin Letters, published in 1959, which describes America's apocalyptic fall to Communist infiltration due to the corrosive influence of the New Deal, and its redemption through a violent revolution staged by an underground army known as the Rangers. The book's plot is described in more detail in
The John Franklin Letters
The John Franklin Letters
The John Franklin Letters
National Alliance leader William Pierce told his biographer that he was inspired to write The Turner Diaries by an earlier novel, The John Franklin Letters, published in 1959, which describes America's apocalyptic fall to Communist infiltration due to the corrosive influence of the New Deal, and its redemption through a violent revolution staged by an underground army known as the Rangers. The book's plot is described in more detail in