Western Islands (publisher)
Western Islands is the publishing arm of the John Birch Society (JBS). Originally in Belmont, Massachusetts, Western Islands is now located in Appleton, Wisconsin, where the JBS has its current headquarters. Alongside the American Opinion Bookstores and Speakers' Bureau, Western Islands was one of the primary organs by which the John Birch Society distributed its published materials across the continent.[1]
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| Parent company | John Birch Society |
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| Predecessor | American Opinion |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178 PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin 54913 |
| Distribution | North America[1] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Anti-Communism, politics, international relations |
Selected publications
- Allen, Gary. Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask (1971)
- Allen, Gary. Nixon’s Palace Guard (1971) LCCN 72-180076
- Burnham, James. The Web of Subversion: Underground Networks in the U.S. Government (1965) OCLC 1036906317[2][3]
- Chambers, Claire. The SIECUS Circle: A Humanist Revolution (1977) ISBN 978-0882791197
- Daugherty, Harry Micajah. The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy (1975) ISBN 978-0882791180
- De Toledano, Ralph. Seeds of Treason: The True story of the Chambers-Hiss Tragedy (1965)
- Dinsmore, Herman H. The Bleeding of America (1974) ISBN 978-0882791265
- Drummey, James J. The Establishment’s Man (1991) ISBN 978-0882790329
- du Berrier, Hilaire. Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam. (1965) LCCN 65-24091
- Evans, M. Stanton. The Assassination of Joe McCarthy. (1970) OCLC 476643261
- Gannon, Francis X. Biographical Dictionary of the Left (4 Vols.) (1969–73)
- Granovsky, Anatoli. I Was an NKVD Agent: A Top Soviet Spy Tells His Story (1962) ISBN 978-1163809938
- Greaves, Percy L., Jr. Understanding the Dollar Crisis. Foreword by Ludwig von Mises. (1973) [4]
- Griffin, G. Edward. The Fearful Master: A Second Look at the United Nations (1964) ISBN 978-0882791029
- Griffin, G. Edward. The Great Prison Break: The Supreme Court Leads the Way (1968) OCLC 220369
- Griffin, G. Edward. This is the John Birch Society: An Invitation to Membership (3rd edition, 1981) ISBN 978-0912986043, OCLC 10543258. Recorded on December 17, 1969.
- Hoar, William P. Architects of Conspiracy: An Intriguing History (1984)
- Huddleston, Sisley. France: The Tragic Years, 1939-1947 (1965)
- Jasper, William F. Global Tyranny... Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order (1992) ISBN 978-0882791357
- Johnson, Gus. F.D.N.Y.: The Fire Buff's Handbook of the New York Fire Department, 1900-1975 (1977) ISBN 978-0882792330
- Kelly, Clarence. Conspiracy Against God and Man (1974) ISBN 978-0882792293
- Lane, Arthur Bliss. I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American Ambassador Reports to the American People. The Americanist Library, One Dozen Candles, Vol. 2 (1965) Full text available.[5]
- Lee, Robert W. The United Nations Conspiracy (1981) ISBN 978-0882792361
- Linington, Elizabeth. Come to Think of It (1965)
- Lumpkin, Grace. Full Circle (1962) ISBN 0595282946[6]
- Montgomery, Robert H. Sacco Vanzetti: The Murder and the Myth (1965) ISBN 978-0882790039
- Perloff, James The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline (1988) ISBN 978-0882791340
- Robison, John. Proofs of a Conspiracy (1976) Originally published in 1797.
- Rose, Martin L. Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A., 1884-1966 (1956) LCCN 66-28199
- Rust, Zad. Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan (1971)
- Sennholz, Hans F. The Age of Inflation (1979) ISBN 978-0882791296
- Smoot, Dan. The Invisible Government (1965) ISBN 978-0882791258
- Smoot, Dan, The Business End of Government (1973)
- Somoza, Anastasio and Jack Cox. Nicaragua Betrayed (1980) ISBN 978-0882792354 LCCN 80-142893 OCLC 16600987 Full text available.
- Stang, Alan. The Actor: The True Story of John Foster Dulles Secretary of State, 1953-1959 (1968)
- Stang, Alan. The Highest Virtue (1974)
- Van Gorder, Dan P. Ill Fares the Land: The Famine Planned for America (1966) LCCN 66-28920
- Welch, Robert. The Blue Book of The John Birch Society (1959) ISBN 0882791052. Also available at HathiTrust.
- Welch, Robert. The Life of John Birch: In the Story of One American Boy, the Ordeal of his Age (1960) ISBN 0882791168
- Welch, Robert. The Politician (1963)
See also
External links
References
- Toy, Eckard V. (Jr.). "The Right Side of the 1960s: The Origins of the John Birch Society in the Pacific Northwest." Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 105, No. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 260-283. JSTOR 20615422
- “As the Birch Society grew, its American Opinion Bookstores, Western Islands Press [sic], and American Opinion Speakers' Bureau spread Welch's ideas and JBS programs across the United States and into Canada.” (p. 270)
- Kristol, Irving. Review of The Web of Subversion by James Burnham. Commentary Magazine, June 1954.
- Roberts, Henry L. "Review of The Web of Subversion by James Burnham". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 4, July 1954. doi:10.2307/20031065
- Hazlitt, Henry. Review of Understanding the Dollar Crisis, by Percy L. Greaves, Jr. Books for Libertarians, Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1974, p. 4. Full issue available.
- Woolbert, Robert Gale. "Recent Books on International Affairs." Review of I Saw Poland Betrayed by Arthur Bliss Lane. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 4, July 1948. doi:10.2307/20030152. JSTOR 20030152. Published by the Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original.
- Free, William J. "Review of Full Circle by Grace Lumpkin". The Georgia Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 1964. pp. 118-121. JSTOR 41395995.
Bibliography
- American Opinion book list (1968)
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