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Hitler's American Friends, by Bradley W. Hart, is an audiobook examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners, and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II.
Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less-popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided.
Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime.
Some of these friends were Americans of German heritage who joined the Bund, whose leadership dreamed of installing a stateside Führer. Some were as bizarre and hair-raising as the Silver Shirt Legion, run by an eccentric who claimed Hitler fulfilled a religious prophesy. Some were Midwestern Catholics like Father Charles Coughlin, an early right-wing radio star who broadcast anti-Semitic tirades. They were even members of Congress who used their franking privilege - sending mail at cost to American taxpayers - to distribute German propaganda. And celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh ended up speaking for them all at the America First Committee.
We try to tell ourselves it couldn't happen here, but Americans are not immune to the lure of fascism. Hitler's American Friends is a powerful look at how the forces of evil manipulate ordinary people, how we stepped back from the ledge, and the disturbing ease with which we could return to it.
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French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre said that "words are loaded pistols". In the hands of Russ Baker, they are hydrogen bombs. On each and every page of his masterpiece, Family of Secrets, he explodes the myths and lies that powerful forces have perpetrated on the American consciousness. He digs beneath the surface in a form of journalistic archeology to reveal the hidden history of one of America's most powerful families, leaving no stone unturned.
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Still Relevant, Impossible to Put Down
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Most Americans have grown accustomed to accept the version of history that the Soviets were our noble allies and took the brunt of the casualties during World War II. But after decades of research by veteran journalist M. Stanton Evans and intelligence expert Herbert Romerstein, the truth has come to light and is now exposed in Stalin's Secret Agents. Evans and Romerstein focus on the role of secret Communist Alger Hiss at the crucial Yalta Conference of 1945, where vast U.S. concessions were made to Russia....
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Stalin actually ran our war policy!
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The Stalin Burreau in America
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God and Ronald Reagan made presidential historian Paul Kengor's name as one of the premier chroniclers of the life and career of the 40th president. With The Crusader, Kengor returns with the one book about Reagan that has not been written: the story of his lifelong crusade against communism and of his dogged and ultimately triumphant effort to overthrow the Soviet Union.
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Whether you like Reagan or not....
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The Communist
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In his memoir, Barack Obama omits the full name of his mentor, simply calling him "Frank." Now, the truth is out: Never has a figure as deeply troubling and controversial as Frank Marshall Davis had such an impact on the development of an American president. Although other radical influences on Obama - from Jeremiah Wright to Bill Ayers-have been scrutinized, the public knows little about Davis, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, cited by the Associated Press as an "important influence" on Obama....
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So that's where Obama got many of his ideas!
- By Mike on 09-17-12
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-09-22
Riveting
Learned so much about the US's fascination with fascism. Turns out we cycle through the crazy and here's hoping that sanity prevails every time.
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- Linda Galas
- 10-30-22
I bet the book was better…
A solid in-depth history about something those of us who were born in the Forties and after never learned in our classes - but should have. The parallels in Hitler’s American Friends to today, beg for a sequel: Putin’s American Friends. We can but hope that even though the public is ignorant of the book’s history, our national security services and the FBI are well aware of it and are making sure it doesn’t happen again.
I will read the book - so I can stop and re-read things I want to commit to memory, and to assign a narrator’s voice - in my head- that doesn’t go so fast, or feign a German accent.
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- BrianD
- 01-07-23
Compelling historical research
Little known history of Nazi influence in the US, beginning in the pre-WWII years and progressing until the 1960’s, when most of the conspirators died. Highly recommended.
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Hitler's American Friends by Bradley W. Hart
I knew some of the stories but wow. To know how many would have been willing to sell out or just give this country over to pure evil then. To see / hear the evil has grown many heads today tells of evil personified. Thank-you sir for the history lesson. We must learn!
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- E of Tacoma
- 12-16-22
Overall great new look at Nazi threat to America
That book is full of information on the subject. Note for voice actor do your homework, it’s not that hard to learn to pronounce names and place names.
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- Charlie R.
- 12-12-22
What you did not know
Detailed and excellent coverage of the many aspects of this plot and story. Hart outlines the complex in overlapping plots against the United States in the 30s and early 40s and brings it together at the end. Very interesting.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-21-22
Don’t do accents.
1. Mr. Ciulla’s poor, half hearted attempts at foreign accents while reading direct quotes was an unnecessary distraction. 2. Saying, “Quote…unquote.” would have been of more help for all direct quotes, accented or not.
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- Franklin Kitchen
- 01-03-23
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This is so relevant the today's political and social atmosphere. It's Only been 80 years and yet it seems like we are living it again. Brilliant and highly recommend
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-07-22
Very interesting book brought to us by Fake Accent University
An interesting and chilling book that reveals a great deal about pre-WW II fascist activity in the US. Well-researched, well-written, and worth the read.
The performance would be vastly improved if the reader did not use his fake German accent for direct quotes. Unfortunately his fake Irish accent resembles his fake German one and neither should have been encouraged. I’m a no to his folksy “rural” Midwest accent as well. Hilariously bad.
Luckily the content is terrific!
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- Andie
- 12-22-22
Enlightening
This study in American history is relevant to happenings in modern America. It is frightening and yet encouraging. It gives one hope that America can get through current Fascist uprising and continue the great democracy experiment.
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