Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 16, 1960) was an American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This 600-page book argues for a race-based, totalitarian path for the preservation of Western culture. Although best remembered today as a writer, Yockey was active with many far-Right causes around the world throughout his adult life.
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Francis Parker Yockey (September 18, 1917 – June 16, 1960) was an American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This 600-page book argues for a race-based, totalitarian path for the preservation of Western culture. Although best remembered today as a writer, Yockey was active with many far-Right causes around the world throughout his adult life.
The biographical facts about Yockey are largely unknown with any degree of certainty, particularly since Yockey spent most of his adult life on the run from various government authorities. Most of what is known about him comes from the accounts of those who knew him, or from the efforts of the FBI to gain intelligence regarding his activities, as recorded by his biographer, Kevin Coogan in his book Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International.
Yockey was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family was forced to...
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