Thank you.

I’m an e-book junky because I’m a neurotic compulsive highlighter of text and margin notes writer. And I would have ‘post-it’ tabs sticking out as page marks.

Back in the day I had a ballpoint pen with four colors, a sharp pencil and ‘post-it’ paper next to my reading chair. Now I can highlight, make notes, mark pages and search key words on my i-pad. And read on a treadmill machine at the gym.

And I thought I was the only one… (only, in the last years I have used a set of colour pencils in place of the multi-color pen).

Still, the substantial, top-level texts have to be read in book form, not e-book.

Still, the substantial, top-level texts have to be read in book form, not e-book.

Yes!
My most substantial read, which I have been reading for decades, is Toynbee’s 12 vol. “A Study of History”. I can’t imagine that opus as an e-book and even if it were, the complexity of his inter and intra volume cross referencing would be impossible at least in the current e-book technology.

This is so awesome. I downloaded both to my Kindle account. The formatting is superb. The cover doesn’t show up in my Kindle Paperwhite bookshelf view but it does in the Kindle app on my iPad.

What are the total number of pages in each book?

Thank you, Ron. American Pravda series: Penetrating analyses. Seminal insights. Crucial public service. Bravo!

I’m so old & old fashioned that I would buy a paperback edition of American Pravda in an instant. Hope there might still be some chance of this. Congrats, Ron.

Thanks for making these two essay collections available as ebooks, Ron. I’ve been printing selected American Pravda essays to PDF for years and now have them *all* together in one place. Fantastic! Makes them convenient for sharing with others. Thanks again.

Thank you, Mr. Unz. I have been worried that they will sooner or later deplatform you. I’m glad that I and many others will be archiving it as well as reading it.

Are you trying to tell us that the Jews are finally going to shut down your website?

Thank you Ron. If they ever take down your site, I pledge to put these on sundry flash drives and carelessly lose them on a regular basis inside public libraries.

Well done Ron and many thanks.
I’m sure you know you are on the “to be disappeared” list, hopefully just digitally.
James Corbett has looked at the online burning of today’s Library of Alexandria and has a good few online digital back-up solution suggestions but physical digital and print are vital too.
You might talk to Greg Johnson at Counter Currents about physical copies,
I for one would but them.
Bill Jones

This was a great idea! I’ve enjoyed reading your American Pravda series and never tire of discussing it with friends and family when the occasion arises.

Now, when can we get the whole thing in leather-bound hard copy? 😉 I would buy!

Thank you, Mr. Unz. I enjoyed reading your fascinating articles on here, and agree it’s nice to have them on nice, platform-independent ebook files.

Hopefully your readers will endeavor to recommend these series to anyone they can!

An idea might be to print out fliers or leaflets. One can use QR codes to link to the site itself or the ebook files.

Excellent!
Off into the ole Kindle it goes. Thanks!

Kevin, you’re thinking along the same lines, more or less, that I’ve been thinking. Outreach, popularization, activism, or call it what you will.

Much of what we talk about here is, in my opinion, pretty much mainstream bread ‘n’ butter politics that, again in my opinion, have been squelched by the odiousness, criminality, and ineptness of the laws and policies we’ve been compelled to live under for many decades.

Ron has done a great service to America with his writings, and they deserve greater public light. His skepticism and scholarly background and moral courage ought to be bottled and passed out free in school cafeterias as a remedy for zombification. (LOL)

Thanks.

I have the hard copy and downloaded a few of my favorites to my computer, but it would be good to have a dedicated storage reader.

My grandpa was a big reader of the Commentary articles in the late 90s and early 00s. He probably absorbed your mid-period writings. Hopefully, I can pass some of yours on to my grandkids – hopefully.

Can Amazon erase kindled books or am I mistaken?

Having read all Ron’s articles here at Unz.com, I’d say The Secrets of Military Intelligence, Understanding WW2, Our Great Purge of 1940’s, and The Bolshevik Revolution and its Aftermath are the ones that are the most important to read.

Believe it or not, I think the one Ron wrote about Wedell Wilkie getting the GOP primary nod in 1940 might be the most telling concerning just how we are not prepared to believe how precarious any nation is from subversion at any time.

Thank you Ron Unz. Very genuine appreciation for what you do.

This is cool. Thanks.

BTW it is words like these that indicate a good soul:

These eBook versions are convenient for reading without use of the Internet, sometimes an important issue in these troubled times, and feel free to redistribute the copies to whomever might find the information of interest. If you consider the material valuable, then donate whatever you consider fair via PayPal or other systems.

Be happy, sir, to be who you are. You should be. If you ever get discouraged, which is normal, just look out here at the positive responses you are getting.

Thank you, Ron Unz!

Lastima que no se publique también en español.
En todo caso felicitar a Ron Unz por la publicación de tan magnifico trabajo.

Saludos

Thank you.

Electronic books and book readers are the second most important innovation since automobiles. The most important is the capacity to search all digitized textual matter on an unbiased search program. Let’s hope they aren’t both soon sacrificed to the LGBTQI and snowflake gods.

Yes, please release American Pravda in normal book format. it would be the only way we could buy it for those we believe need to read it, and have them actually read it.

Ron, I ought to add that it’s something of a tribute to your political acumen that a lot of commenters here are bright, accomplished folks who nonetheless have been rubbed the wrong way by an America gone wobbly. Their insights and testimonies from personal and professional experience, sometimes in strong detail, are gems in their own right.

Thank you, Ron. I’ve downloaded both eBooks to Kindle successfully using the Mobi format, and the ePub Meritocracy to Google Play Books. However, I have been unable to download American Pravda to Google Play Books successfully using the ePub format. It shows up in the Play Books library but won’t complete the download. I get a message saying the file may be corrupted or is incompatible with Play Books. I’ve tried numerous times and it always fails. I had no trouble with the ePub Meritocracy download into Play Books using the same procedures. Works great.

This is no big issue for me since I mostly use Kindle. I just thought you might want to know. If it’s any help, I’ve been doing all this on an Android phone.

Thanks again.

This is awesome. This is beyond-words awesome!

You know what would really get this American Pravda series (and TMOAM) to take off, especially among the younger crowd (20-something’s)? Audio format. Look how E. Michael Jones took off, especially among Zoomers and Millennials, once his stuff (podcasts/interviews) was posted on YouTube. It became viral and is now replicated all over YouTube even after EMJ was banned. Ron’s American Pravda series is orders of magnitude more powerful, encompassing, and penetrating than EMJ’s limited, singularly-focused stuff.

Ron’s work totally rips away the curtain of the official history and narrative and once his work gets out there will cause a “rip in the personal space-time continuum” among the younger generation.

Ron, who has a very pleasant and resonant voice, could do the reading. It could then be shared on YouTube, Reddit, et al. Soon Ron’s work will start surreptitiously supplanting the official narrative among the younger generation.

Well, that’s an EBook reader ordered. Kobo Clara HD gets good reviews and it’s not Amazon.

You have certainly been a busy man. Even though a resident of Australia, I must admit that I have seen the light, having been converted. I am now an unapologetic Unzie.
Being available in electronic form obviously safeguards the future, once the book burnings begin.

Being available in electronic form obviously safeguards the future, once the book burnings begin.

Fahrenheit 2577*

*The melting point of silicon

Taken together this collection seeks to provide a historical counter-narrative of our last one hundred years.

an astonishing and momentous accomplishment

I’d be curious to know if Mr. Unz considers any event in particular of the last hundred years as being uniquely seminal in bringing us to our current condition, and which might give us clues to navigating our way forward..

The intrigues on Jekyll island?

WWII?

Or was it all just a witches brew of so many events and personalities that providence has brought us to this juncture?

Certainly, the advent of the Internet has altered our fate in ways difficult to quantify.

So too, this might be said of our host’s efforts to preserve the collective expression of the human mind and historical record*. While so many are so keen for another Dark Age.

I hope Mr. Unz’s vision prevails over theirs.

*there was a time when simply the use of the word ‘history’ was intended to suffice to describe the record of what has transpired over the eras and decades past. But as The American Pravda series makes abundantly clear; “history” (as it’s taught and disseminated) is little more than the collected dissembling of agenda-driven ‘court historians’, and assorted academic scoundrels – (“respectable” ‘historians’ and ‘journalists’, and other paid liars).

I like the suggestion too.

Some enterprising reporter should travel to Vietnam and do some research on the POW story. They’ve opened up a bit so someone there might now someone who knows something that could help shed some light on what happened.

My epub books changes page numbering based on window size. Inconvenient and annoying, but may be just my reader.

Excellent idea!

Is there any chance that the books archived on UR in HTML format could likewise be converted into Kindle files, comparable to those of Project Gutenberg? (If not the entire collection, then perhaps just some of the more notable/popular ones, e.g. those of Kevin MacDonald, Jared Taylor, Peter Brimelow, and David Irving.)

Ron,

You really should. I’ve thought of it many times. I never would’ve asked because I figured you wouldn’t have the time. You could always hire a voice-over artist. Might be a bit pricy with the huge word count, however.

Actually, I suppose the deplatforming of so many outspoken websites is a modern equivalent of book burning, similar to Fahrenheit 451.

Love it. While I don’t always agree with you, I love reading your works. The American Pravda series is very important and insightful. Thanks for making these both available in epub.

If you want audio cheaply: text to synth-voice, like on some U-tube videos. It should be possible now to synthesize a voice so beautiful that people fall in love with it at first listen.

You sound crisp and clear. Well paced and even toned. Sounds good to me.

Thanks.

Sounds good and sincere.

For a possible source of voice talent or content distribution, radio reading services for the blind may be worth looking at. My local radio reading service has a stable of unpaid volunteers reading newspapers for the blind, plus the energetic blind director of the local station is pretty willing to consider political content.

Gripping analyses, Ron. Thanks.

I started out thinking your voice would be too bland or monotonic, but I soon forgot that as I got into what you were saying. Even remembering almost all the details about Vioxx, melamine and TWA800, excepting perhaps the Salinger aspect. That parasite analogy shook me up, in a good way.

It all shows how easily we are controlled, though I do sense that a major segment of the American population has been beginning to see through the overwhelming psychological manipulation these past four years of the Trump era.

The media strategy appears to be to make singular mentions of the truth, in a derogatory manner. People tend to forget those things they have only heard once. But if someone else brings it up, they will associate it with the derogation and simply dismiss it as too distressing to think about.

Voilà! It worked. Thanks a bunch, Ron the Magician. Very kind of you.

Vocal cadence and pronunciation are excellent, but you need a slightly better microphone, audio interface, quality XLR cable, and mic stand with boom. There’s some background static, and the frequency response of the mic you’re using sounds very narrow; and sometimes we can hear you click your mouse, or shuffle your body etc. A proper condenser mic designed for radio or singing would greatly enhance the body of the sound, suppress background noise, soften some of your s’s and other plosives, and give a more professional result overall. A simple set-up would probably put you back about $250-$500.

Still listening; cadence within sentences is excellent, but some expanded pauses between long sentences and paragraphs would give the reader more time to reflect and digest your narrative, and establish some hierarchy between points.

But frankly I would listen to all of these if you made them, even if recorded on a 90’s video-game headset.

Ron,
Congratulations on the success. I may not agree with everything on your collection, but they are always thought-provoking, and exemplify how many “holes” there are in our world on various narratives, “holes” that may exist for natural or unnatural reasons.

Your meritocracy article clearly my favorite of all of them, since it simply has brought forth ideas that I was stunned to read about. For instance, I never assumed the discrimination against Asian Americans were so vast despite their relative high academic ability. I knew it was there, but not to this extent.

I had one question about your fascinating piece.
Your data on California’s lack of affirmative action is very interesting, but something that I noted that is very fascinating is that Blacks make up 4.5% of the California youth and Hispanics make up 41% of the CA youth, yet at Caltech Blacks make up 1%(4% undergrad) of the student body and Hispanics make up 7%, which implies Blacks are more represented.
At Berkeley, Blacks are 3% of the population, despite being 4.5% of the youth, and Hispanics are 10%, while being 40% of the state’s youth. That implies that Blacks are over representative. I am assuming that most Caltech and Berkeley admissions are though CA students primarily, for awareness and benefits reasons. I tried finding data, and found some claims on Reddit at the Caltech forms that 90% of the applicants were in-state, though of course taken with a grain of salt.

Are Blacks higher ability than Hispanics, or are those admissions systems much more selective for “diversity” than it seems? It’s bizzare, but the US census has Blacks at a higher per capita income than Hispanics, though I always thought that was due to some gov benefit.

Thanks, Ron. I’ve downloaded the ePub to my iPad and it works great. Very convenient navigation and good for highlighting. It will be good for people who want to catch up on the back catalog.

If you want to stick with the simple USB mic set-up, what you have is probably about the peak of quality for that equipment type, and spending more on a new USB mic probably won’t make a big difference. The appreciable difference will be made with a condenser mic plugged via XLR cable to an external audio interface, connected to your computer via USB or Thunderbolt, which can take up to an hour of set-up and dialing in, but which can be left plugged in once set-up. As you’re a professional software engineer, I’m sure you can handle it.

Microphone: Rode NT-1 or NT-1A (slightly brighter), I think they sell them in bundles with a pop filter.

Audio interface: if Mac, Focusrite Scarlett solo, if PC, Steinberger UR22. Both of these work with Audacity; I’m not sure how old a version you’re using but it shouldn’t matter.

Cable: Mogami XLRM – XLRF 12 ft

Mic Stand: anything

Will come to a little over $500-$600 for everything there. There are many options, some cheaper, some more expensive, and many online guides and youtube videos for different price-ranges, but I thought I’d include specific recommendations in case you didn’t want to think about it. The interface can be bought used with probably no consequence, but the mic and cable should be bought new. The cable is important for noise suppression and is often the Achilles heel.

I understand your point about just aiming for “good-enough”, but from my perspective, listening to Unz audiobooks recorded on the above equipment would be luxurious, and if I were about to produce forty hours of audio of highly researched articles for a website which receives thousands of page views a month, I would make the investment, but that’s simply my opinion. If the men in black are coming for you and you need to get these things recorded now, then of course, record with what you have, and screw the audiophiles.

I’ve been listening to audiobooks for decades and have been an Audible member for years and have listened to hundreds of audiobooks, lectures (Great Courses), et al.

Let me say that these audio samples from Ron are stellar in terms of clarity and Ron’s reading. Ron has a great voice. It is clear and resonant and Ron enunciates flawlessly. Most importantly, Ron is the perfect choice for reader because he is the writer and knows the material well, something which adds so much to a reading.

I have one small suggestion for Ron. In reading his own work it would add a lot to his reading if he add a conversational touch where possible (personal anecdotes). Like he’s on a podcast talking with host (e.g., his discussion with Steven Hsu). And while these personal anecdotes will be a small part of the overall reading, occasional slight variations in pace, pitch, and emphasis add a lot and make long listens less tedious. But as always, less is more.

No, no, no. I’m not saying go off script. Just when it comes to personal anecdotes (first person) adjust to a slightly more conversational, relatable tone expressing your surprise, astonishment, etc., about what your about to delineate.

For instance, some parts from American Pravda where you might read add a little expression or change in tone. But again, less is more.

“Then perhaps fourteen or fifteen years ago, I encountered a rip in my personal space-time continuum, among the first of many to come.

In this particular instance, an especially rightwing friend of evolutionary theorist Gregory Cochran had been spending long days browsing the pages of Stormfront, a leading Internet forum for the Far Right, and having come across a remarkable factual claim, asked me for my opinion. Allegedly Jacob Schiff, America’s leading Jewish banker, had been the crucial financial supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution, providing the Communist revolutionaries with $20 million in funding.

My first reaction was that such a notion was utterly ridiculous since a fact so enormously explosive could not have been ignored by the many dozens of books I had read on the origins of that revolution. But the source seemed extremely precise. The Knickerbocker columnist in the February 3, 1949 edition of The New York Journal-American, then one of the leading local newspapers, wrote that Today it is estimated by Jacob’s grandson, John Schiff, that the old man sank about 20,000,000 dollars for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia…”

I probably shouldn’t have even mentioned this small point at all because you would’ve naturally done this in the reading anyway. I just wanted to provide a little tip as a major consumer of audiobooks and podcasts.

(3) I think for my target audience the content is far more important than the presentation. I’m not producing a polished video, just a simple audio version of my long articles. So “good enough” is probably satisfactory.

(4) It’s not at all clear to me how large an audience these audio versions will get. But since I’m only putting in a tiny sliver of the time I originally spent producing the original articles, it’s probably cost-effective. But if the audience turns out to be far larger than I expect and there’s some strong reason to improve the quality, I could always eventually do a second run.

I agree with the other comments that Ron has a clear and crisp voice which is well-paced for an audiobook. The audio quality of those samples is excellent.

It’s the content that will get the audio viral. If posted on YouTube it’ll reach a totally new and much larger audience (especially when it goes viral and is copied by other YouTubers around the world). The audiobook version (and the .ePub and .mobi ebooks) should be uploaded to Library Genesis and Internet Archive as well.

I would NOT recommend recording the whole book(s) and then posting. Reading the book cover-to-cover is stupid and would be a Herculean task for a first-time audiobook reader. I would suggest recording only one edition of American Pravda at a time. One that would most likely get the most attention and post that. With the length of the American Pravda pieces each of these will be equivalent to a short book anyway. I would suggest first recording the JFK Assassination Part 1 and Part 2 and posting it on YouTube with a somewhat sensational title to act as a hook. I imagine a lot of 20-somethings will discover it serendipitously, listen to it online or even mp3 it, and get hooked. Then other American Pravda audio editions can be posted which will attract attention and so and so on. After getting done with all the other American Pravda pieces they can be put together as a whole .zip download or posted on YouTube.

I would also progress the same way with The Myth of American Meritocracy but since these essays are shorter I would bundle them into one audio to post on YouTube. I would bundle one that would be of interest to Asians, including the essays on education, Harvard, Meritocracy, Asian quotas, elite schools abolishing tuition, and maybe a recent article on China (e.g., “Averting World Conflict with China”).

Up till now the small demographic group who goes on UR and clicks on a long America Pravda article about Stalin or a Post-War Europe or the Bolshevik Revolution is probably going to be some middle-aged guy who has probably already read a lot on the subject and has his weltanschauung made up.

Younger people have short attention spans, don’t read much (or can’t read much due to social media*), but they do listen to audio (audiobooks, lectures, and especially podcasts). This is the way to get this important out and make it viral. They will start sharing it and will do the job or disseminating it (and will then search out and get the digital versions as well).

You can find a lot of current non-fiction audiobooks posted on YouTube channels, e.g., Cal Newport, Richard Dawkins, Antony Beevor, etc. Just search ‘non-fiction audiobooks’ or the specific subject your interested in along with the search term ‘audiobooks’ and you see lots of audiobooks you can listen to or mp3.

*Even a voracious reader like Steve Sailer discovered this after a while on social media:

I’m less anti-Twitter than most Twitter users. Twitter's big downside is it destroys your attention span. Initially, reading Twitter had felt like getting pelted by dozens of ping-pong balls per minute, but now Twitter is easy for me and books are hard. https://t.co/J43588u7l1

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) February 11, 2021

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I would suggest first recording the JFK Assassination Part 1 and Part 2

Part 3 of this “America Pravda” series should be the murder of prominent New York City journalist and “What’s My Line?” game show panelist, Dorothy Kilgallen, who was ready to break the JFK assassination wide open and told close friends she was ready to publish her information right before she was found dead in the same manner as Marilyn Monroe.

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Most young people (under age 40) won’t look at anything longer than a meme, gif, or perhaps a Tweet. If you meet a young person who has an above-average attention span, you still have to keep it no longer than a Tweet thread or a 5-minute Youtube video.

Hardly any young people read long articles. Reading an entire book is just not done anymore. A long podcast might absorb interest for a few minutes, but you have to get to the point REALLY quickly.

No, I’m not exaggerating. The situation really is THAT bad.

A touch of (premature) AMD has increased my appreciation of the aural and/but what my school principal called my “fissiparous tendencies” has inspired the thought that even the Unz Review’s target audience might be in danger of running off the road from the shock of some of your heterodox revelations. Of course those you relished shocking by insisting that the Myth/Meritocracy be read to the end you might happily see in a pile up. (I listened two nights ago, as I now rarely do, to my old lefty autodidact friend Phillip Adams on his 30+ year old ABC program Late Night Live and his mention of having AMD made me wonder about his driving nightly back to his Hunter Valley sheep and cattle property listening to audiobooks). 😎

Brilliant and generous-hearted.

Great to see condensed information. I dont have to sit in front of a screen for long hours just to search the topic. Thanks so much.

I came across with this online book, published in 50s. A couple of points are added to my little knowledge.

https://truthinmediablog.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/iron-curtain.pdf

1. Wall Street behind the big revolution or 1917. How they managed it.
2. The beginning of Khazari Jews and their spat with Arians in Central Asia.
3. General Eisenhower speech in Dallas TX, in 1951 where he mentioned when he asked he soldiers during the war what that were fighting for? 90% did not know.
Now ask anyone of WWII. They know the answer. Thanks to Hollywood, Holocaust museums (46 in US and counting. I am sure there is going to be one on South Pole)
44. No citizenship requirements for Eastern European Jews to get jobs in State Department (in 1930s under FDR)

Just when I think Ron Unz couldn’t be a better citizen of the world, he does something like this. Many thanks to him for his ongoing contributions to our civilization…

Ron: You’re worth more money …

Últimamente me han mandado artículos de Unz. Si envías, por ejemplo, artículos del website de Giraldi, dan con Unz.com. Igual sucede con Atzmon y sus artículos anti-vacuna. Trata ElToroTv en general, y un programa llamado “La inmensa minoría” en particular. Excelente contenido y cuidan no ser “anti-semitas”. Es una ventaja no estar limitado al mundo angloparlante.