a survivalist newsletter titled Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter, which was published from 1977 to 1982. It was first published and edited by Mel Tappan. In the same time period, Hess authored the book A Common Sense Strategy for Survivalists. Hess ran a symbolic campaign for Governor of West Virginia in 1992. When asked by a reporter what his first act would be if elected, he quipped, "I will demand an immediate recount." Legacy In a Reuters op-ed piece, in 2012, New Yorker Maureen Tkacik asserted that Karl Hess was the ideological grandfather of the anti-1% movement – making Hess the direct antecedent of thinkers like Ron Paul and both the Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement. She cites the detailed argument Hess, in his libertarian phase, put forward in his book Dear America to delineate and decry the extreme concentration of power in the hands of a tiny financial and stock-holding elite. Tkacik quotes passages from Hess's book to offer proof that Hess developed the language of the 1% versus the 99% (the former being those whose role, according to Hess, is demonstrably detrimental to the vast majority of Americans). Bibliography Articles “The Lawless State: A Libertarian View of the Status of Liberty”. National Issues Series of Politics. Constitutional Alliance. Vol. 4, No. 4 (1969) “Desperate Character” (1976) Books In a Cause That Will Triumph: The Goldwater Campaign and the Future of Conservatism (1967) The End of the Draft: The Feasibility of Freedom (with Thomas Reeves) (1970) Dear America (1975) (autobiography/anarchist manifesto) Neighborhood Power: The New Localism (with David Morris) (1975) Community Technology (1979) A Common Sense Strategy for Survivalists (1981) Three Interviews (1981) Capitalism for Kids (1986) Mostly on the Edge: An Autobiography (edited by Karl Hess, Jr.) (1999) Book reviews “Review of The Fabulous Insects, edited by Charles Neider”. The Freeman, May 17, 1954. (p. 607) Films Karl Hess: Toward Liberty is a documentary film which won the Academy Award for best short documentary in 1981, after having previously won a Student Academy Award. Another documentary prominently featuring Hess is the 1983 film Anarchism in America. References Further reading External links The Karl Hess Club Karl Hess – Freedom Circle The Plowboy Interview Karl Hess The Death of Politics: 1969 Playboy article by Hess Coming Home: final chapter from Dear America "Why Neighborhoods Must Secede": 1972 article by Hess From Far Right to Far Left– and Farther–