The Turner Diaries

About The Turner Diaries

The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel written by the late William Luther Pierce (leader of the white supremacist organization National Alliance) under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald". The Turner Diaries depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the United States federal government and, ultimately, to the extermination of all Jews and non-whites, leaving an all white world population of fifty million.

The novel was initially only available through mail order and at gun shows, and partially serialized in National Alliance publications. The novel is now available for sale through mainstream book sources (ISBN 1-56980-086-3), or freely available from white supremacist websites. In 2000 it was reported to have sold about 500,000 copies.

The novel has been associated with a number of real-life violent crimes. Most notably, some have suggested that it served as the inspiration for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.