{"product_id":"the-world-in-flames-the-shorter-writings-of-francis-parker-yockey-paperback","title":"The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis Parker Yockey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKerry Bolton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Parker Yockey (1917-1960) was an American political theorist and activist who drew on Oswald Spengler's philosophy of history and culture to argue for a pan-European imperial political order. Under the pen name of Ulick Varange, he published \u003cem\u003eImperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e in 1948 and \u003cem\u003eThe Enemy of Europe \u003c\/em\u003ein 1953. Yockey traveled widely under many aliases, seeking to build a coalition of fascists, Arab nationalists, Communists, and Third World revolutionaries to fight American hegemony, which he saw as Europe's primary enemy. He committed suicide on June 16, 1960 in the San Francisco Jail, where he was being held on charges of passport fraud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe World in Flames\u003c\/em\u003e collects all of Yockey's surviving essays and correspondence, including recent and never-before-published archival discoveries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-one chapters range from Yockey's earliest surviving writings, \"The Philosophy of Constitutional Law,\" written when he was an undergraduate at Georgetown University, and \"The Tragedy of Youth,\" written for Father Coughlin's \u003cem\u003eSocial Justice\u003c\/em\u003e--to his enigmatic suicide note, including along the way his 1949 manifesto \u003cem\u003eThe Proclamation of London of the European Liberation Front\u003c\/em\u003e; his 1951 speech on Communist subversion, \"America's Two Ways of Waging War,\" ghost-written for Senator Joseph McCarthy; and his final, apocalyptic geopolitical writings, \"A Warning to America,\" a long-lost estimate of Communist China, and \"The World in Flames,\" his overview of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe World in Flames\u003c\/em\u003e also collects works that Yockey co-authored with H. Keith Thompson and Frederick Weiss, as well as fragments of his lost writings from the files of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, which shadowed his every move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo appendices reprint the surviving issues of Yockey's newsletter \u003cem\u003eFrontfighter\u003c\/em\u003e and H. Keith Thompson's memorial poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe World in Flames\u003c\/em\u003e is an indispensable volume for understanding America's most important anti-liberal thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 508\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47413657075890,"sku":"9781940933245","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e2d5984b72d00fae0c3f01337096b187.webp?v=1778356387","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-world-in-flames-the-shorter-writings-of-francis-parker-yockey-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}