Stephen Bannon the guru to the POTUS has quite a good book collection:
Julius Evola
An esoteric, NS-affiliated Italian who died in 1974, Evola was a leading proponent of “Traditionalism,” in which the Renaissance, the French Revolution and the Protestant Reformation—along with progress and equality generally—are deemed poisonous concepts. His most influential work, The Revolt Against the Modern World, was published in 1934. His thinking now inspires the Hungarian nationalist party and Greece’s Nationalist party Golden Dawn. Benito Mussolini was a fan, and Bannon praised his ideas in a speech at the Vatican in 2014.
The Camp of the Saints.
A a novel about hordes of unassimilable brown people entering Europe. “Scraggy branches, brown and black.... All bare, those fleshless Gandhi-arms.” Poor, brown children are spoiled fruit “starting to rot, all wormy inside, or turned so you can’t see the mold.” Bannon referred repeatedly to the obscure book during radio appearances in the last few years, according to The Huffington Post. “It’s been almost a Camp of the Saints–type invasion into central and then western and northern Europe,” he said in October 2015. “The whole thing in Europe is all about immigration,” he said in January 2016. “It’s a global issue today—this kind of global Camp of the Saints.” Later that month, he said: “It’s not a migration, It’s really an invasion. I call it The Camp of the Saints.”
Sun Tzu His The Art of War.
A classic of military strategy, is high on military Bannon’s list. One of Bannon’s former Hollywood friends, described him as “Steve is a strong militarist. He’s in love with war—it’s almost poetry to him. He’s studied [war] down through the ages, from Greece, through Rome...every battle, every war.... Never back down, never apologize, never show weakness....
Bhagavad Gita
This 2,000-year-old tome, written in Sanskrit, contains 700 verses about dharma and holy war. Bannon is said to “have an obsession” with dharma, the Eastern principle of cosmic order, for which the word 'wyrd' may be a comparison.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
These historians’ The Fourth Turning (1997) sees history in timed cycles of cataclysmic change. The notion is known as the Strauss-Howe generational theory, which divides cycles into 22-year spans and suggests that after four cycles, revolutions occur. Bannon has calculated that we’ve reached the end of an 80-year cycle and are headed to a possible third world war, in the form of America against Islam, the West versus the East, white versus brown.
Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
Donald Trump, Time to Get Tough and Make America Great Again
Bannon gave the book a rave Breitbart review in July 2015, a month after Trump announced his candidacy. The book “stands out as his most penetrating, serious, and detailed enunciation of his political philosophy and policy views,” Bannon wrote.
Good books overall there folks. Get reading!
