The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds Audio Book: William Pierce’s Early Life

by Bradford L. Huie
for The American Mercury

TODAY WE  continue Vanessa Neubauer’s reading of Professor Robert S. Griffin’s masterful biography of Dr. William Luther Pierce, The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds.

This week we present details of William Pierce’s early life — his birth, his parents, and other family members — his early schooling and childhood enthusiasms — his life at a Texas military academy — his first jobs — his interactions with the church — his days at Rice University — his work at Los Alamos and Cal Tech — his doctoral studies — his days as a university professor — his marriage to a young student — his children and subsequent marriages — his love for women and his favorite cats. (ILLUSTRATION: William Pierce as a very young child and in his 60s.)

This audio book will be published in weekly chapter installments on The American Mercury and will be available from the Mercury as a full-length audio book when the series is completed.

One of the most original — and controversial — thinkers of the 20th century was White nationalist, novelist, and founder of a new European religion, Cosmotheism, Dr. William L. Pierce.

The only real biography of Dr. Pierce is Professor Robert S. Griffin’s The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds, which was published in 2001. This week we continue with the third chapter, “Early Life,” of the book. Experience William Pierce, the writer, the philosopher, the radical — and the builder of an intentional White community in the mountains of West Virginia — just as Robert Griffin experienced him, by pressing the play button now.

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