2014, Dissonant Hum, 167 pages

A Sky Without Eagles is a very attractive self-published volume. I particularly liked the preface, in which Jack described the trajectory of his growing understanding of the cost of the American Dream, and the fact that “man’s decline” is intimately linked with the fleeting substance of that soulless national value system.

Violence is Golden has long been Jack’s most well known work, and leads off the volume. This essay seems to have gone a long way toward bringing non-combatants on the alternative right to the realization that they need to consider the physical dimension of their ideology when charting their course.

The best essay is Jack’s white nationalist speech from 2013 that provided the book’s title, in which he outlines the difference in humanity’s two basic orientations. The point he makes is simple enough that I have no desire to spoil it be paraphrasing his work here. In this often funny speech Jack admits to being a romantic, correctly noting that most men are romantics. This really hit home for me. For I have adapted to the moral and criminal violence of American life predominantly by murdering the romantic in myself. Jack does an entertaining and concise job of outlining what a crappy world it would be if the meek inherited it.

My personal favorite easy is Crom, in which Jack elevates Robert E. Howard’s fictional god above more traditional offerings. Crom was the hard-hearted deity that haunted the famous Conan character with the fact that he did not care about his creations. Two of Jack’s lines really resonated with me:

“The last thing men need today is more comfort, more false affirmation. The last thing men need today is a god that cares about everything they say or do, and whether or not they’ve been naughty or nice.”

Jack Donovan has provided men who are sick of life as usual in Manginastan with 17 thought provoking essays. Check it out through the link below.