E. H. Hail on Steve Sailer

[E. H. Hail]

Steve Sailer's book "America's Half-Blood Prince" was NOT "published in 2009."

The book was rushed to get completed and published, which it was some weeks before election day 2008. I think it was available on the book market in early October 2008. Peter Brimelow also posted a full copy on VDare.com with Sailer's blessing. This was some weeks before the election.

The bookwas largely was a rehashing of Sailer's fast-paced running-commentary on the Obama phenomenon between about late 2007 and mid-2008. The advantage was it was put all together in one place. There was some new material, and some was adapted into something more like "book style" than "blog style," with mixed success.

The whole effort with "America's Half-Blood Prince" amounted to a racial-political-ideological biography of a man. By extension a mirror held up against the society that elevated such a man to the presidency (and, a few months later, to the Nobel Peace Prize, for just being an exotic Black good at happy-talk).

A big point of Sailer's in late 2007 and all throughout 2008 at frenetic pace, was: the media is covering up who Obama really is. That sounds quaint today, in the mid-2020s when people are a lot more cynical about these things, a time when around a sold-third of the population actively "hates the media." It was considerably less true in 2007-08. And a lot of people fell for the fluffy-fun-foreigner version of Obama vaguely pitched by the people who created and pushed him.

The "Half-Blood Prince" book was, as I'd interpret it, a warning against embracing that which Obama represented. He represented a post-White and even a more-openly anti-White political dispensation. Not that Sailer preferred in 2008 the terrible John "invade the world, invite the world" McCain. But the Obama Precedent was bad. I think that view has been vindicated well enough. "Kamala Harris" is an even-more decadent and absurd form of the Obama Precedent. And there are so many others all around. Ketanji-Brown Jackson? (Or is it Ketanki Brown-Jackson?).

VDare published the "America's Half-Blood Prince" book in 2008. I think Peter Brimelow urged Sailer to write the book, fat some point in the few weeks after Obama clinched the nomination from Hillary (by guilt-tripping the party than the Black Race deserves a win this time; come on, now).

The problem was, the rapid nature of the process made the "Half-Blood Prince" book less strong than it could have been. There was, for example, no real design cover. The printing/binding was cheaply done. The endnotes were a little chaotic, far too chock-full of URL-links. In other words, there was a lot of telltale signs that it was done "on the computer" and not thought of, as such, as a "real book." Readers are discerning creatures and pick up on all manner of subtle hints like that. It's why editors are worth their salaries.

The "Half-Blood Prince" book could have been helped by editorial input from friends and well-wishers -- and a professional editor to give major notes on organization or the like. There was no time for much of any of that. The principal players involved all agreed: It had to get published well before the election. And it was. But Obama was elected anyway (although many believe McCain "threw the election" in order to help the historicness of a Black man with weak ties to the USA, and with anti-White racial resentments, achieve the U.S. presidency). THe consequences still linger, but don't say Steve Sailer didn't warn you.

A quote from Sailer's book, adapted into a late-2000s Internet meme:

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