The advocacy group found that all four sites are selling The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, a book which contains white supremacist myths such as the 14th Amendment was “never constitutionally ratified.” The book also argued that the Civil War was unnecessary because slavery was expected to “fade away naturally,” under the Confederacy.
The book, written by H.W. Crocker III, was accused of using “cherry-picked research and one-sided judgments of figures” in its arguments by the Harvard Political Review.
The book, written by white supremacist William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, details an anti-Semitic and racist genocide carried out in the future by a group of domestic terrorists trying to overthrow an “anti-white, anti-U.S.” government.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the book is “probably the most widely read book among far-right extremists.”
Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people after bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, was said to have kept pages of the novel in a plastic bag in his car. He also sold copies of it at gun shows across the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The ADL also reports that McVeigh mailed a letter to his sister, warning that “something big is going to happen,” along with clippings from The Turner Diaries prior to setting off the bomb.
The materials were still available to buy at the time of publication.
Google Play Books, AudioBooks, and Barnes and Noble did not immediately return a request for comment.
