 “Reading through Shots Fired is to experience the all too brief illusion that a great writer and patriot is still among us. For instance, Sam Francis’s splendid column exposing Rosa Parks as a professional agitator planted on her famous bus by a pinko training school in Tennessee, of which she was an alumna, could have been filed a
month ago—or this week.”
— Chilton Williamson Jr.
Author of The Immigration Mystique:
America’s False Conscience; and
The Conservative Bookshelf
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— James C. Russell, Ph.D.
Author of Breach of Faith:
American Churches and the Immigration Crisis
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“This anthology, which is studded with gracefully stated insights, proves unmistakably why Sam Francis was not a conventional movement conservative. He was too smart, too honest, and, as these essays indicate, too ready to state social truths that the media had worked strenuously to conceal. It would not be an exaggeration to view Francis as the most brilliant as well as the most senselessly persecuted thinker to have appeared on the American Right.”
— Paul Gottfried
Professor of Humanities, Elizabethtown College
Author of Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt
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— Clyde N. Wilson
Professor of History,
University of South Carolina
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“For Sam the fight was personal—his country was under attack from out-of-control immigration and liberal groupthink, and obvious solutions were being ignored lest they offend some politically connected untouchable. He channeled those feelings into some of the most eloquent political writing of our times. Sam Francis was the voice of the Founding Fathers speaking down through the ages.”
— Fran Coombs
Managing Editor,
The Washington Times
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— Peter Brimelow
Editor, vdare.com
Author of Alien Nation:
Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster
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“The late Sam Francis (1947–2005) was a lion of what he called the real Right—those who, besides advocating limited government, states’ rights, separation of powers, popular traditions, and the Bill of Rights, believe the U.S. is an organic product of Western European culture, not an artifice founded on some airy proposition (e.g., “All men are created equal”). Accordingly, he deplored massive immigration, multiculturalism, and minority special pleading. If he’d ever been an ardent Republican, the party’s uncritical free-trade globalism, inattention to conservative issues, and relentless expansion of government made him one of its most furious critics. He came to see Republican conservatism as ignorant and unprincipled, and its cooption by contemporary neoconservatives as so much liberal subversion. He cogently and wittily held forth on all this in a syndicated column as well as carefully argued, informative, and impressively erudite speeches and journal articles. The examples of the latter included here afford eye-opening perspectives on civil disobedience, the Religious Right, the Second Amendment, egalitarianism, cultural symbols, cultural elites, and more. Invaluable political cogitation.”
— Ray Olson
Booklist
American Library Association
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— James Owens, Ph.D.
Former Dean,
American University School of Business
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— Jared Taylor
Editor, American Renaissance
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“The writings of Sam Francis will continue to influence the American Right long after his neo-conservative detractors have been forgotten. The appearance of this volume, which contains many of the devastating insights that so infuriated his enemies, is eloquent testimony to his continuing relevance and importance to the modern political movement he helped shape.”
— Jerry Woodruff
Editor, Middle American News
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people and country he loved. Francis warned against erosion of liberty, against
trading ‘security’ for liberty, against mass immigration, against loss of pride and
vigor. Sam Francis will be recognized as the Tacitus of our times.”
— Virginia Deane Abernethy, Ph.D.
Author of Population Politics;
Fellow, American Association
For the Advancement of Science
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“As you read the essays in Shots Fired, you are reminded that Sam Francis was the ‘conscience’ of the Right. He never failed to point out when the professional conservatives operating inside the Washington, D.C., Beltway and in Manhattan colluded with the Left and international elites to dispossess America’s core population and wage war against their culture. Francis was dangerous because he called on us to liberate ourselves from this phony, counterfeit brand of conservatism.”
— Wayne Lutton, Ph.D.
Author of The Immigration Invasion;
Editor, The Social Contract Quarterly
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— Kevin MacDonald
Professor of Psychology,
California State University, Long Beach;
Author of The Culture of Critique:
An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement
In Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements
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“Shots Fired is vintage Sam Francis. As Joe Friday said, ‘Just the facts, Ma’am.’ Sam tells you the facts, without drama—the result is devastating. In a world where fools make a living taking themselves seriously, Sam always has an undercurrent of his wry, ironic humor. He is so matter-of-fact that you wonder how anybody would get paid for coming up with the balderdash he very calmly tears to pieces.”
— Robert W. Whitaker, Ph.D.
Author of Why Johnny Can’t Think
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