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In this episode, Bradley explores the strange history of one of America's first home-grown fascist leaders - William Dudley Pelley - better known as "The Chief." Along with Pelley biographer, Scott Beekman, Hart walks us through Pelley's life journey: starting as young journalist, then an author, a Hollywood screenwriter, a mystic, a publisher, a politician, and ultimately "The Chief" of an armed U.S. fascist movement in the 1930s known as the Silver Legion.
Bradley and Nancy Beck Young discuss a man that was labeled by Life Magazine as America’s #1 fascist intellectual. Lawrence Dennis held popular sway over national politicians, business elites, college students and all those who gravitated to fascism in the 1930s. But, Dennis hid a personal...
Published 06/11/24
Industrialist Henry Ford was an engineering prodigy that literally changed the way most Americans lived their lives in the early 20th Century. But, he was also a staunch anti-semite who used his great wealth to influence aspiring fascists worldwide. Along with contributors Pamela Nadell and...
Published 05/28/24