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Western Islands is the publishing
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

 arm of the John Birch Society
John Birch Society
The John Birch Society is an American political advocacy group that supports anti-communism, limited government, a Constitutional Republic and personal freedom. It has been described as radical right-wing....

; it is located in Appleton
Appleton, Wisconsin
Appleton is a city in Outagamie, Calumet, and Winnebago Counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is situated on the Fox River, 30 miles southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the county seat of Outagamie County. The population was 78,086 at the 2010 census...

, Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

, where the society also maintains its headquarters.

A survey of book
Book
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 titles from its catalog includes:
  • Claire Chambers, The SIECUS Circle: A Humanist Revolution (1977).
  • Herman H. Dinsmore, The Bleeding of America (1974).
  • Hilaire du Berrier, Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam (1965).
  • Dr. Francis X. Gannon, Biographical Dictionary of the Left (1969).
  • G. Edward Griffin
    G. Edward Griffin
    G. Edward Griffin is an American film producer, author, and political lecturer. He is perhaps best known as the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island , a critique of much modern economic theory and practice, specifically the Federal Reserve System.Starting as a child actor, he became a radio...

    , The Fearful Master: A Second Look at the United Nations (1964).
  • William P. Hoar
    William P. Hoar
    William P. Hoar is a writer for the John Birch Society noted for very strong attacks on mainstream politicians from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush...

    , Architects of Conspiracy: An Intriguing History (1984).
  • Clarence Kelly
    Clarence Kelly
    Bishop Clarence Kelly is a Traditionalist Catholic bishop. He was ordained a priest on April 13, 1973 at Ecône, Switzerland by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre for the Roman Catholic Society of St. Pius X....

    , Conspiracy Against God and Man (1974).
  • Robert W. Lee, The United Nations Conspiracy (1981).
  • James Perloff, The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations And The American Decline (1988).
  • James Robison, Proofs of a Conspiracy (1976).
  • Dan Smoot
    Dan Smoot
    Howard Drummond Smoot , better known as Dan Smoot, was an FBI agent and a conservative political activist...

    , The Invisible Government (1965).
  • Anastasio Somoza
    Anastasio Somoza Debayle
    Anastasio Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan leader and officially the 73rd and 76th President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country from 1967 to 1979...

     and Jack Cox, Nicaragua Betrayed
    Nicaragua Betrayed
    Nicaragua Betrayed, published in 1980, is the memoir of former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle , who had been toppled the previous year by the Sandinista insurgency...

    (1980).
  • Alan Stang, The Actor: The True Story of John Foster Dulles Secretary of State, 1953-1959 (1968).
  • Robert Welch
    Robert W. Welch Jr.
    Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr. was an American businessman, political activist and author. He was independently wealthy following his retirement and used that wealth to sponsor anti-communist causes. He co-founded the conservative group the John Birch Society in 1958 and tightly controlled it...

    , The Blue Book of The John Birch Society (1959).

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