William Pierce, the head of the neo-Nazi-oriented National Alliance, differs from the other people who have been profiled in this anthology both in the international reach of his organization and in the successful use that he has made of imaginative novels to propagate his radical racial views. The Turner Diaries, Pierce's novel of domestic race war first published in 1978, depicts a triumphal racial pogrom by whites in America that is touched off by the detonation of a powerful fertilizer bomb to blow up a federal building. The Turner Diaries quickly attained something of a cult status among militia groups and members of the racist right in America and became the inspiration for a number of acts of domestic terrorism, the most deadly of which was the destruction of an Oklahoma City federal building by Timothy McVeigh in 1995 in which 168 people were killed. The Turner Diaries has been translated into German and French, and the high regard in which it is held among the racist right in Europe has resulted in Pierce acquiring an unusually high reputation for an American in European nationalist and neo-fascist circles. Pierce's second novel, Hunter, depicts the assassination of interracial couples and Jews, and while not as popular as The Turner Diaries, has had considerable impact among white nationalist forces, particularly in Britain. Pierce is certainly an unlikely candidate to head a neo-Nazi organization. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology who holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Colorado, Pierce worked for a number of years as a college teacher at Oregon State University and was a senior research scientist for a Connecticut aerospace firm.