Imperium
- London: Westropa Press, 1948
An infamous rarity amongst collectors of extremist literature, self-published, dubbed "America's Mein Kampf" by Anthony Mostrom in the Los Angeles Review of Books. It is perhaps the most theoretically-complex and oft-cited fascist work published after WWII, taking a page from Oswald Spengler more than Hitler. The author, an American who had spent years traveling the globe as a sort of roving representative of the underground Fourth Reich, would briefly make headlines in 1960 when he was arrested in San Francisco by the FBI and took a cyanide pill while in prison, ending his own life a la Hermann Goring. His dalliances with the Soviet Union were no doubt largely the basis of the FBI's interest. As per Imperium Yockey believed in a sort of pan-Europeanism that included the USSR, and is believed to have been actively aiding the Soviets in a sort of sub rosa red/brown alliance against the USA at the height of the Cold War. Imperium was brought back into print in 1962 and has remained so to this day.
Details
Title
Imperium
Author
Yockey, Francis Parker (writing as Ulick Varange)
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Westropa Press: London
Date
1948
Edition
First edition