Support the Legacy of Samuel T. Francis! Help FGF publish his magnum opus, Leviathan and Its Enemies, Abridged.

The Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation owns the copyrights of all the writings of Samuel T. Francis, Ph.D. (1947-2005), a brilliant writer, author, and historian. Sam was a nationally syndicated columnist whose articles and review appeared in major U.S. newspapers and magazines.

FGF Books, the publishing arm of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, will be soon be publishing Leviathan and Its Enemies, Abridged. This will be a shortened and more readable version of the 794-page first edition. Leviathan and Its Enemies is a magnum opus on political theory and the history of the modern world. It would have been lost to the world had not Jerry Woodruff, his friend and colleague, discovered the manuscript in Sam’s files after his untimely death.

In his introduction to Leviathan, Mr. Woodruff writes: “Following [James] Burnham, Sam believed a new ruling elite emerged in 20th-century ... the growth of giant corporations, the expansion of government power and bureaucracy, and the widespread emergence of mass organizations gave birth to a powerful class of skilled professionals to guide and manage the vast operations of the means of economic production, which, on a smaller scale, were once in the hands of private entrepreneurs and their families. 

“As a result, the old ruling bourgeois elite, along with its political and social institutions and its view of society and politics, were replaced by a new ‘managerial elite,’ with a world outlook that set out to remake society according to its own interests, and which was hostile to any bourgeois remnants in conflict with that project.”

FGF Books needs your help to publish this abridged version of Leviathan and Its Enemies. Please consider a tax-deductible donation today. Thank you very much.

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Other books by Samuel Francis include Power and History: The Political Thought of James Burnham; Revolution from the Middle; Beautiful Losers; and America Extinguished: Mass Immigration and the Disintegration of American Culture.

There are two anthologies of his work: Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America’s Culture War (FGF Books, 2006) and Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of our Nation and Our Time (Occidental Quarterly, 2006).

While serving as deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Times, Dr. Francis received the “Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing” from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in both 1989 and 1990. He was also editor-in-chief of the Citizens Informer; and associate editor of The Occidental Quarterly: A Journal of Western Perspective on Man, Culture, and Politics.