ABSTRACT
After four years, Siege was published on Michael Moynihan’s press Storm in spring 1993. It was a long book. The main part consisted of eight sections totaling 370 pages plus five sections in the appendix. The main sections were “The NSLF and the Move towards Armed Struggle,” “National Socialism,” “Conservatism and the Lost Movement,” “The System,” “Lone Wolves and Live Wires,” “Strength and Spirit,” “Leaders,” and “Universal Order.” The appendices included documents from Joseph Tommasi’s National Socialist Liberation Front, which had inspired James Mason.
The book had two audiences: neo-Nazis and counterculturalists, especially those attracted to extremes for their own sake and/or Charles Manson. Most White Supremacists ignored it. But one major leader, Tom Metzger, became a big supporter, distributing it and plugging it on national TV. In addition to receiving positive reviews in fascist fanzines, Mason wrote an article discussing the main themes of Siege in Resistance, a magazine published by George Hawthorne of the band RAHOWA. In addition, a number of alternative weekly newspapers, including Westword and the New York Press, wrote about Mason and the book, giving it a profile that few neo-Nazi books ever achieve. Siege soon sold out.
