Barricade Books

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Barricade Books is a New York, NY publishing house specializing in non-fiction books. Among its most famous publications is The Last Party, the memoir of Adele Morales about her marriage to author-playwright Norman Mailer.

The publishing house was established by Lyle Stuart (born August 11, 1922, died June 24, 2006), and it is presently operated by his widow, Carole Stuart. Barricade specializes in books that test the limits of First Amendment freedoms.

Barricade Books publishes The Anarchist Cookbook, by William Powell. The book, which included instructions on making bombs and homemade silencers for pistols, was first released in 1970 at the height of antiwar and anti-establishment protests.

The press also reissued The Turner Diaries, an anti-government novel originally self-published by a neo-Nazi in 1978. It is said to have been a favorite of Timothy J. McVeigh, executed for killing 169 people with a truck bomb in Oklahoma City in 1995.

The founder of Barricade Books, Lyle Stuart, is also famous for knowingly publishing one of the most sensational literary hoaxes of the time: Naked Came the Stranger (1969). A sex novel written by "a demure Long Island housewife," the novel was actually written by 25 reporters from Newsday to prove the public would buy anything. Naked Came the Stranger became an immediate best seller before the hoax was revealed.