Post-release History
Since writing the book, Powell has converted to Anglican Christianity and has attempted to have the book removed from circulation. When the book was published by Lyle Stuart, the copyright was taken out in the publisher's name, not his, and the current publisher had no desire to remove the book from print. Powell has since created many websites devoted to the book, explaining his desire to see it removed from circulation as he no longer advocates what he had written. He wrote on one of those websites:
The book, in many respects, was a misguided product of my adolescent anger at the prospect of being drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight in a war that I did not believe in.
At the time of its publication, one Federal Bureau of Investigation memo described The Anarchist Cookbook as "one of the crudest, low-brow, paranoiac writing efforts ever attempted."
In 2009 the magazine Vice published a brief history of the book as well as excerpted recipes. The magazine's associate network, VBS.tv, also broadcast a documentary on the subject.
In 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released the bulk of its investigative file on The Anarchist Cookbook.
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