Sins of My Father: Growing Up with America’s Most Dangerous White Supremacist

by Kelvin Pierce, Carole Donoghue

Kelvin Pierce was raised to be a hard core racist. His father, Dr. William Luther Pierce III, was founder and leader of the National Alliance, one of the most well-known White Supremacist organizations in the world. In 1978 William Pierce wrote The Turner Diaries, which has been labeled “the bible of the racist right” to this day. All the while, Pierce indoctrinated his son with tenets of White Supremacy, interspersed with physical and psychological abuse. By the time the author left home he was a seething morass of hate and suffering. Read about his eventual recovery and transformation.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Memoir

301 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 3, 2020

Reviews

[K · Rating 1 out of 5]

Shabbos goy, writing the character assassination piece on his own dead father (and grandmother).
In a typical leftist fashion, not a single argument why his father's opinions were wrong is presented, and every single thing his father says or does in his private life is dishonestly interpreted in the evilest manner possible.
Mysteriously, the last 7 years of his fathers life and their realtionship is missing from the book. After a very pleasant meeting with his father he mentions they never saw each other again, but did they continue to communicate or why not, we don't know. Probably didn't fit the narrative of the book, so it was omitted.
Up until the end I was willing to give him a benefit of a doubt and think of Kelvin Pierce as a "daddy didn't love me" normie, who's just willfully ignorant of societal truths and deeply plugged into the Matrix, but now I'm thinking this book was actually cooked up somewhere in the FBI.
Why wasn't this written when his father was alive, or after his father's death in 2002? You'll find out in the last chapter: SURPRISE, it's Trump!
If you think "white supremacy" (having a border) is the greatest threat to mankind, you'll love this book.

[Liam Porter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this in no more than a weekend day. It is absolutely riveting. Kelvin Pierce's father is William Luther Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries.

If you do not know this book, The Turner Diaries, it is a fictional future history of a revolutionary cell who overthrow the USA and reclaim it for "white race". It celebrates the lynching of "race-traitors" in the streets - the origin of the dark alt right meme "the day of the rope." In the context of a dystopian-utopian future, it regards our own as a dark age before the dawning of aryan hegemony over the "lesser races" of the world. It is a hellish promise of heaven that inspired the concept of white nationalist violence in the USA. Previous to him there had been only the Ku Klux Klan to compare him to. He was a very evil man indeed.

Who was the man behind the fierce words of the Turner Diaries? How can we understand his self-image as respectable and scholarly, in spite of his psychopathically violent imagination?

This book reveals that he quit a promising career at the university researching cutting-edge physics in the 50s, to becoming an acolyte of the American Nazi Party leader George Lincolm Rockwell in the 60s, to founding a splinter-movement of the nationalist-socialist youth movement "National Youth Alliance" and trying to convert it into a church: his own National Alliance. He build a military-looking compound (half church, half weapons silo) in the remote reaches of West Virginia.

He was a terrible parent, and all the time he spent under the thrall of George Lincoln Rockwell he did so by leeching off of his long-suffering wife, who worked a full time job as a maths teacher, did all the household cleaning, and paid all the bills. All father William could bring in were sporadic bursts of cash from his sideline in selling weaponry and bombs to radicalized racists.

This book comes highly recommended for anyone with an interest in fringe politics and race relations in the USA.

[Brent Bonet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow. The author's father was a real nut-job. This is a good read and Pierce's motivation in writing it is very timely.

[Jeffrey Gao · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant takedown of a disgusting pile of racist garbage who was also a horrible father, Kelvin Pierce proves that his atonement is genuine and William Luther Pierce may have been his father but he wasn’t his daddy.
May William Luther Pierce forever be condemned!
PS I just gave it five for a middle finger towards white supremacists who would bash this.

[Ptera Hunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not a big fan of most autobiographies, but Sins of My Father: Growing Up with America’s Most Dangerous White Supremacist intrigued me. Author Kelvin Pierce explores his conflicted relationship with his father, white supremacists William Pierce, founder of the Neo-Nazi organization, The National Alliance, and the author of the notorious Turner Diaries. W. Pierce abandoned his family for hate, dedicating his life to it. In his book, Kelvin recounts how his abusive father’s activities stigmatized him and his family and submerged him in a legacy of hate that he struggled to overcome. Throughout the book, the author acknowledges his paradoxical continued love for his abusive and infamous father, reminding us that the ties between a parent and a child can remain strong despite abuse and damage done to us and others.

The book does more than simply tell a “mommy-dearest” story of personal abuse. It explores William Pierce’s savvy use of the media to spread his gospel of race hatred, the techniques he used to target followers, and the ties and rivalries between the National Alliance and other racist organizations.

Mr. K. Pierce has taken a divergent path from his father’s teachings and his illness of hate. Where his father valued white supremacy above his family, Mr. K. Pierce follows a path of inclusivity, speaking out against his father’s work and founding a charity to help orphans in the Republic of Georgia, from where he adopted his two daughters.

[Giancarlo Cevallos · Rating 5 out of 5]

"It takes real strength and courage to stand up for others."
-page 284
To that, Kelvin Pierce, I add that baring your heart, revealing your deepest wounds and flaws and joys; that is rare. It demands superhuman will. And, as your recounted in this book, it took a life to do.
Pierce lived under a father who viewed only one man as his equal and superior, Adolf Hitler. He idolized and worshipped the murderer. Though Pierce Sr. resented religions and rejected Christ, he adopted Hitler as his god; a prophet-martyr who must inspired.
Pierce Sr. demanded complete obedience from his friends, employees, family and superiors. From Jews, feminists, homosexuals and any human darker than a cracker, Pierce Sr. desired agonizing genocide.
In Pierce Jr., we see more than a man who left his demons, who chose disinherit hate. I believe Pierce Jr., with his twin brother Erik and their families, is the true, best legacy of William Luther Pierce III.
Another of many ironies in this spectacular memoir. The family that Pierce III shunned was the only good he ever left.

Needless to say, this book is fantastic. I hope Pierce re-releases it one day to correct the minor typos.

[Susan D · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author survived countless and horrific years at the hands of a madman. His story of suffering and resilience is relatable to all of us at some level of our lives.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

And I thought my upbringing was bad. A great account of growing up with a tyrant, and how we can step out of the shadow of our parents and overcome their biases and our own trauma.

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Brave and needed to write this account