Is the Turner Diaries book about Ted Turner?

Question

I have to do a book report on a famous person in the business world. I chose Ted Turner and remembered that my brother had a copy of the Turner Diaries. Can someone give me the gist of what the book is about, because I can't seem to locate it at the school or county library.

Answer 1

No. The Turner Diaries is a book by William Luther Pierce (a white supremacist) under the pen name "Andrew MacDonald".

What Wikipedia says:

The Turner Diaries depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the United States federal government and, ultimately, to the extermination of all Jews and non-whites, leaving an all white world population of fifty million.

The novel has been associated with a number of real-life violent crimes. Most notably, some have suggested that it served as the inspiration for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. (which is why you probably can't find it at your school)

Plot Summary:

The narrative starts with a foreword set in the year 2099, one hundred years after the events depicted in the book. The bulk of the book then quotes a recently discovered diary of a man named Earl Turner, an active member of the movement that caused these events. The book details a violent overthrow of the United States federal government by Turner and his comrades and a brutal contemporaneous race war that takes place first in North America, and then the rest of the world.

The story starts soon after the federal government has confiscated all civilian firearms in the country under the Cohen Act, and the Organization of which Turner and his cohorts are members goes underground and engages in guerrilla war against the System, which is depicted as the totality of the government, media, and economy that is under Jewish control (which equates, in the book, with support of multiculturalism). The Organization starts with acts such as the bombing of FBI headquarters and continues to prosecute an ongoing, low level campaign of terrorism, assassination and economic sabotage throughout the United States. Turner's exploits lead to his initiation into the Order, a quasi-religious inner cadre that directs the Organization and whose existence remains secret to both the System and ordinary Organization members.

Eventually, the Organization seizes physical control of Southern California, including nuclear weapons at Vandenberg Air Force Base; ethnically cleanses the area of all blacks, Hispanics, and Asians; and summarily executes all Jews and "race-traitors." They then use both this base of operations and their nuclear weapons to open a wider war in which they launch nuclear strikes against New York City and Israel, initiate a nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union, and plant nuclear weapons and new cells throughout North America. The diary section ends with the protagonist flying an airplane equipped with an atomic bomb on a suicide mission to destroy The Pentagon, in order to eliminate the leadership of the remaining military government before it orders an assault to retake California. The novel ends with an epilogue summarizing how the Organization continued on to conquer the rest of the world and to eliminate all people of other races.

From the Publisher (Barricade Books)

At 9:02 am on Wednesday April 19, 1995, two tons of explosives ripped apart the federal office building in Oklahoma City and the psyche of America. The worst case of domestic terrorism in our history, this explosion killed 169 men, women, and children. The author of this book has written, If [this book] had been available to the general public . . . the Oklahoma bombing would not have come as such a surprise. It has been considered by the Justice Department and other government agencies as the bible of right-wing militia groups, and the FBI believes it provided the blueprint for the Oklahoma City bombing. Barricade Books has published it so America can better understand the cause of racism and extremism.