08-04-2012, 01:29 AM
I started this post about five months ago on the attempt by Wall Street to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933-34 and establish a fascist dictatorship in the United States because I saw it as a prelude and a paradigm to what happened on November 22, 1963, even to the point of noting some familiar culprits in both events. This earlier event had been so well covered up and ignored by history textbooks and the mass media that had it not been written about and brought to light, no one in this country would ever have known about it. I learned about it and about Marine General Smedley D. Butler from my father when I was about eleven years old and I never forgot about it. It became a habit to search in libraries whenever I could, but I never found mention of these events until I read Jules Archer's book, THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE, many, many years later.
I recently started reading THE PLOTS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT: A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right, by Sally Denton, an investigative journalist, Guggenheim Fellow, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. This is about the plots against President Roosevelt, and from what I have read so far, I cannot stop myself from thinking about how similar those conditions were to what we are experiencing in this country right now, with an economic depression, war veterans and civilians without jobs, racism, sexism, religious intolerance, the deepening economic inequality, and the rising power of the right. History is definitely repeating itself.
This book I want to recommend to everyone because of the historical perspective that can be gained in examining the sociological, politiical, and economic factors involved over the past 80 years. There are many lessons to be learned and much to be understood.
Adele
I recently started reading THE PLOTS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT: A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right, by Sally Denton, an investigative journalist, Guggenheim Fellow, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. This is about the plots against President Roosevelt, and from what I have read so far, I cannot stop myself from thinking about how similar those conditions were to what we are experiencing in this country right now, with an economic depression, war veterans and civilians without jobs, racism, sexism, religious intolerance, the deepening economic inequality, and the rising power of the right. History is definitely repeating itself.
This book I want to recommend to everyone because of the historical perspective that can be gained in examining the sociological, politiical, and economic factors involved over the past 80 years. There are many lessons to be learned and much to be understood.
Adele