ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the apocalyptic literature of the American radical right. For all of their differences there is a core of received knowledge that underlies every apocalyptic work produced by the radical right. Of these, none is more important than The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The John Franklin Letters went unnoticed in the wider world, but in the insular world of the radical right became both controversial and, for William Pierce, inspirational. Just as The Clansman inspired Birth of a Nation, the John Franklin Letters would inspire the most successful invitation to racial violence to emerge from the literature of the radical right: The Turner Diaries. The post-apocalyptic literature of revolution is, depending on one's point of view, either more optimistic or hopelessly pessimistic than is the literature at the crossroads. The literature is heavily influenced by Christian eschatology, but differs from it in one vital respect.
