The John Franklin Letters

1959 The John Franklin Letters. New York: Free Enterprise Publication distributed by The Bookmailer Inc. PSt

Right wing eutopia that is mostly on the struggle against a Communist takeover of the U.S., but with the overthrow of the Communists at the end. The letters of the title were sent by John Franklin, who was active in the Rangers, an underground group opposed to the direction the U.S. was taking, to his uncle in Illinois. The work is racist (Blacks and Jews), opposed to the New Deal, opposed to the United Nations, against immigration, against “social engineering,” anti-Communist, and anti-Union. It supports the National Rifle Association and is very patriotic. At the end of the novel, the resistance to “world government” has won in many countries. A last note indicates that while the next President is a Negro, he is solidly right-wing. The book was supposedly suppressed by the John Birch Society and re-called by the publisher. See Daniel Bell, The Radical Right. 3rd ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002), 10-12 based on an article by Murray Kempton in the New York Post (October 26, 1961): 5.