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One of the most important books of the white supremacist movement, and perhaps one of the most despised books since ''Literature/MeinKampf'', ''The Turner Diaries'' is about a group of white supremacists who are fighting a guerrilla war against the US government in a dystopian era where, controlled by the [[GreedyJew Israeli Zionists]] and using the blacks as shock troops, the government terrorizes the public into supporting the "mongrelization" of the white race.

Written by William Luther Pierce, founder of massive white nationalist group National Alliance, who credited himself as [[PenName Andrew Macdonald]]. He also wrote ''{{Literature/Hunter}}'' under the same penname.

Arguably influenced the ''Literature/NorthwestFront'' series of books, which is also a white nationalist revolution book.
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!!Provides examples of:

* AngryBlackMan: There are a number of these.
* YouFailLawForever: The Cohen Act that bans all private ownership of guns would never pass in any US legal body with half a skull for starters.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the US Army would allow military discipline to sink below Vietnam War levels at their worst and be utterly incompetent at stopping a right wing terrorist group from getting their hands on nuclear launch control codes and working nukes.
* AssholeVictim: How the book regards those not akin to the protagonists in body, mind and soul.
* BadassIsraeli: Some of the villains.
* BondageIsBad: Sadomasochists are considered sexual deviants by the protagonists.
* BreadAndCircuses: How the Jews control the masses.
* CategoryTraitor: The base premise is that being white without being a racist is a form of extreme betrayal.
* TheConspiracy
* CoolOldGuy: What Henry is meant to be.
* CorruptBureaucrat: The Organization manages to get around a number of regulations through bribery and under-the-table deals.
* CrazySurvivalist: By the end of the book, there are quite a few of these.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The US at the start of the book; Guns have just been outlawed, second amendment be damned, the government has begun behaving like a second Gestapo, and whites are finding their dominion threatened by Jews and minorities. This changes to straight up CrapsackWorld after the "heroes" begin their genocide, and goes downhill from there until it reaches CrapsaccharineWorld again after all non-whites and "race traitors" in the entire world have been murdered leaving the handful of psychotic neo-nazi survivors in control of the planet in a new third reich.
* DeadlyGas: The Organization uses it as a weapon.
* DeepSouth: The Organization spreads here later in the book. However, they have little respect for rednecks.
* {{Defictionalization}}: What this book is perhaps the most notorious for; many nationalists have killed in its name, assuming it to be a prophecy.
* DepravedHomosexual: How all gays are portrayed.
* DirtyCommunists: The Soviet Union is a major antagonist.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Literally; the concept of "equal opportunity" is taken as evil in and of itself.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: At the end of the book, the Aryan race is finally "liberated" as the protagonists let atomic, biological and chemical bombs rain over the entire planet, exterminating about 90% of mankind.
* FinalSolution: The Organization plans to wipe out all Jews and non-whites (except maybe Arabs).
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Several members of the Organization wear glasses.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The "hero", Earl Turner, was once just an electrical engineer. However, he became one of the Organization's most active members.
* TheGovernment: Known here as "The System".
* GreedyJew: Played completely straight.
* HeroicSacrifice: For a given value of "heroic", [[spoiler:Earl gives his life to destroy the Pentagon and save the Order]].
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The book uses public acceptance of fetishism, sadomasochism and homosexuality as an example of why society is decadent and has to be destroyed.
* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: [[spoiler:During the epilogue, it is explained that in 2000, they reset the years to coincide with the annihilation of all minority races in the country after the Organization took control and the white nationalist revolution worldwide]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: In universe, the anti-racists use many of the exact same tactics as the racists, which is lampshaded. That said, the racists who do the lampshading do so through the lens of ProtagonistCenteredMorality, since when they do it, they consider it justified and moral.
** Also, some politicians and journalists who supported the Cohen Act failed to turn in their guns.
* ImAHumanitarian: At about the midpoint of the book, food scarcity has gotten so bad the protagonist notes black people have resorted to cannibalism.
* InsaneTrollLogic: There's a lot of it in the book, both intentional and otherwise.
* [[spoiler: InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace: Enforced by [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Our Heroes Of Racial Purity]].]]
* {{Irony}}: The concept of civil rights is brought up in relation to the ban on the private ownership of guns which, as the protagonist brings up, is at odds with the Constitution. Much of The Organization's actions could also be contested in exactly the same way.
** [[spoiler: By the end of the book, the Arabs are silently cheered on as they kill off the people of Israel, and are even regarded rather positively... by a team of nationalistic guerillas.]]
** The Nazis hated Slavs but liked East Asians. For the Organization and the Order, it's the opposite, which makes their deification of Hitler as "the great one" and their claim of being a direct heir to the SS all the more idiotic.
* ItIsBeyondSaving: How the Organization feels about the current society.
* LaResistance: The Organization, who carry out [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized a murderous campaign of terror to undermine the US government]] up to and including [[spoiler:setting off nuclear weapons to destroy Baltimore, NewYorkCity, start a nuclear war against the Soviet Union and annihilate Israel, flying a plane loaded with a nuclear weapon on a suicide mission to destroy the Pentagon and then wiping out Toronto and covering all of Eurasia east of the Urals with biological and chemical weapons to wipe out the Chinese.]]
* TheMafia: They get into fights with the Organization, because they are supposedly controlled by the Jews. [[spoiler:After a time, all members of the Mafia are executed.]]
* NukeEm: Towards the end of the book, [[spoiler:nukes are used with alarming frequency]].
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The Supreme Court decriminalized rape in order to [[InsaneTrollLogic promote equality between the sexes.]] Of course, this ignores the fact that men can be raped as well.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero
* PrideParade: The novel features a Pride Parade and make a note of how they are getting more inclusive over time, now extending to include fetishists and such. It serves as an example of how the Jews control the world and weaken the Pure Aryan Race through the power of perversion.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The Organization uses many of the same tactics as their enemies. Of course, it's justified when they do it, but when their foes use those techniques, it shows how evil and depraved they are
* ThePurge: The Day of the Rope.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of the few things the the book is relatively consistent on, and the text makes it clear the crime itself, regardless who it's inflicted on, is an especially depraved act.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The protagonists.
* ScaryBlackMan: Many of these show up
* TheSocialDarwinist
* SoiledCityOnAHill: How the protagonists view the entire world.
* SophisticatedAsHell: The protagonist whenever he gets philosophical. On occasion, he will stop to make a reflective comment about the situation, using extremely polished dialogue as if he were a college professor dictating a doctoral thesis. Once that's done, his professionalty drops noticeably.
* StrawCharacter: The book is not very consistent in its portrayals of this. Minorities are often subject to this by default, but [[spoiler:an [[BadassIsraeli Israeli major]] who tortures the protagonist is depicted as well educated and extremely competent in his field.]]
** Liberals are portrayed as being dupes or willing agents of the Jews, while conservatives and libertarians are portrayed as misguided and foolish.
* StrawFeminist: How ''all'' feminists are portrayed.
* StuffBlowingUp
* ThrowAwayCountry: The only remorse the Organization has about turning much of Asia into an uninhabitable wasteland is that it will take a long time to colonize.
* TookALevelInDumbass: After a certain point, everyone not on the side of the racists takes multiple levels in this.
* TortureTechnician: One Israeli officer acts as this.
* WesternTerrorists
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: The one trait endemic to all the black characters.
* YellowPeril: Towards the end of the book, the Chinese attempt to conquer Eurasia.
* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: Judaism is grossly misrepresented.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Arab states [[spoiler:commit genocide against Israel]], the protagonists express admiration. Yet when the Organization [[spoiler:unleashes their final wave of extermination of non-whites]], the Arabs are implied [[spoiler:to have been killed along with all other non-white races]].

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