American Dissident Voices broadcast of January 5, 2019

by Kevin Alfred Strom and William White Williams

WITH THE ARRIVAL of the year 2019, I am reminded that great things often begin in years that end in “9.” 1889 was the year the greatest man of the 20th century was born. The year the love of my life was born ends in a “9” too. And 2019 will be the year that the first construction begins on the the William Pierce Memorial Library and Research Center: a place for the preservation of history and knowledge for future generations; a place for the true education of young and old alike; a place for study, reflection, and creativity for scholars and writers; a retreat for thinkers and philosophers — and builders of the White world that is coming; a place for the creation of new works that will still stand when our race reaches its first new home in the starry sky that Hipparchus first mapped 2,200 years ago.

To tell you about this important project, I will be quoting from several issues of the National Alliance BULLETIN, our print publication, written by National Alliance Chairman Will Williams and his staff. It is Chairman Williams whose hard work and vision is responsible for bringing the Pierce Library into being. (In the text version of this broadcast on nationalvanguard.org, you’ll also see many illustrations from these articles in the BULLETIN.)

It was in our very first print BULLETIN after Mr. Williams became Chairman, the issue published in December 2014, that he told us about the collection that will form the core of the new facility: Dr. William Pierce’s personal library, which was willed to the National Alliance when Dr. Pierce died in 2002. The first place for Dr. Pierce’s books was in the Alliance’s National Office building in Tennessee, a facility that — as you’ll soon see — the collection has now outgrown. From the October-December 2014 BULLETIN:

When I first learned that Erich Gliebe was trying to sell Dr. Pierce’s library back in February 2014, I contacted him and negotiated to purchase it myself to preserve it.

In March we moved it to Tennessee where I have constructed a headquarters building and media center for the Alliance.

At that time, this complex was built for the new incarnation of the National Alliance that I and Kevin Strom decided to launch as soon as Mr. Gliebe did away with the original membership organization structure of the Alliance in September, 2013. The complex is now fully a part of the National Alliance, as the two groups became one when I succeeded to the chairmanship.

In July, desperate for funds, Mr. Gliebe offered to me another large book collection, stored upstairs in the William Luther Pierce Memorial Hall, that had belonged to an Alliance member. I purchased those books, too, and moved them to Tennessee in August.

The library is being organized on the 68 sturdy wooden shelves that held the second collection, and volumes are being added from that collection, as well as from a couple of thousand books from my own personal library and from another collection donated by a member. We will have a world class racially-oriented research library by the time it is fully organized. It will eventually have to be housed in an even larger, purpose-built facility, the construction of which will be a major project.

…The library is more than just books, too — it includes innumerable hand-written notes Dr. Pierce made and inserted in many of the books, greatly adding to their value for us. Others have offered to add their own book collections to this one.

In the BULLETIN for March 2017, National Alliance members were updated on further expansion of the Pierce Library:

Several thousand valuable books from two independent sources have been pledged or already donated to Chairman Williams recently. They are to be merged with Dr. Pierce’s already superb research library that Mr. Williams purchased himself, saving it from the auction block three years ago when he discovered his predecessor, Erich Gliebe, was trying to sell that priceless collection to the highest bidder. A few months later, in August of 2014, Mr. Williams discovered that Gliebe wanted to sell an even larger collection of books from a deceased former Alliance member that at the time had been stored on the West Virginia property for ten years, so he purchased that collection too.

Together, these two large race-centric libraries have been secured in 800 or so carefully packed boxes at the National Alliance’s Tennessee headquarters, waiting to be sorted through and merged into the restored William L. Pierce Memorial Library. Dr. Pierce’s collection already contained libraries he had inherited from George Lincoln Rockwell (National Socialist White People’s Party), James H. Madole (National Renaissance Party), Ben Klassen (Church of the Creator), as well as a few smaller collections and numerous volumes donated over the years to Dr. Pierce by National Alliance members and supporters…

Dr. Pierce was like a “book magnet,” attracting donations of many valuable volumes, many of them rare, out of print editions, which were entrusted to him because of his integrity — and the likelihood they would be put to good use.

The second large library, estimated to consist of more than 15,000 volumes, belonged to the distinguished patriotic writer and Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University, Dr. Gerrit Daams. Dr. Daams began collecting books with a purpose in 1938, when he was just 20 years old. Dr. Pierce, accompanied by Dr. Revilo Oliver, first met Dr. Daams in 1968, before there was a National Alliance, or even our organization’s predecessor, the National Youth Alliance that Dr. Oliver helped Dr. Pierce launch during 1970-1971.

In 2015, Chairman Williams shelved two sections of Dr. Pierce’s library — Biographies and Jewish Topics — on a dozen of the 68 custom-made wooden bookshelves that came with the second large library that had belonged to Dr. Daams. Those two sections of Dr. Pierce’s books were all our Chairman had room to shelve at the time, with all of the stored boxes of books and the other bookcases taking up so much available space.

At the end of December, Chairman Williams, along with the assistance of a competent, trusted associate, began opening boxes from Dr. Daams’ large collection and carefully sorting through them, book by book, for suitable volumes to be added to Dr. Pierce’s library — a racially loyal White bibliophile’s dream job. Not surprisingly, more than two thirds of the books so far from the Daams collection have been re-boxed now for inclusion in the Pierce library. There will, no doubt, be numerous duplicate volumes in the two collections once the final organizing is accomplished.

One problem with these older collections is that they lack newer editions that were published in the 15 years since Dr. Pierce died. That’s not to say we cannot add important, newer works as they are purchased or donated. So many book lovers today do not buy actual books, but purchase ebooks that they read on electronic devices like Kindles. That’s fine, and we will eventually be offering Kindle versions of some of the books we publish, but the Pierce research library will have actual books, as pictured — books that give the devoted lover of a beautifully-bound volume pleasure that he can never get from his hand-held electronic device — and they will be housed in a suitable purpose-built facility designed for our writers and research staff. This will be a major, ongoing National Alliance project that will likely take years to realize — but world class it will be.

In July 2017, Mr. Williams emphasized the importance of the Pierce Library:

Building the world class William Luther Pierce Memorial Library will be a primary focus of mine for several years to come. It will materialize. Watch. It is an achievable, worthwhile project for these times when we don’t yet have the numbers we will eventually attract.

Just one month later, in the BULLETIN of August 2017, Chairman Williams revealed that the extensive racialist library of the late, great writer and musician Joseph Pryce was to be added to ours:

Forty boxes of books have generously been donated to the National Alliance’s William L. Pierce Memorial Library from the personal research library of Joseph Pryce, by his widow Patricia. Patti did an excellent job of choosing appropriate titles, packing, and labeling the boxes. She and Joe helped to organize Dr. Pierce’s library years ago, so were already familiar with the sort