(regarding events that took place around 1940):
Introducing Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors under crushing political pressure. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power. When extremist elected officials get caught plotting against America with the violent ultra right, this is the story of the lengths they will go to… to cover their tracks.
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
I've been listening. It's a very relevant and timely history lesson.
Thanks, good to have others here affirm that it's good. I think that there are several posters to this site who, if they have not yet heard of the series, will enjoy it if they do give it a try.
Smedley Butler has had more than just a small part in the stopping of various outright confrontations both foreign and domestic as Marine Corp officer in both the nineteenth and twentieth century of US Imperialism!!!
This country has been under attack internally since it inception by ultra right wing wealthy individuals, their corporations, and the politicians they own outright!!!
Smedley Butler’s book “War is a Racket” describes how the wealthy and their corporations use the US Military for profit and power here in the USA and over non English speaking countries!!!
Butler's story is soooo revealing about who we are as a nation. It should be required reading in every high school, junior college, and University.
Not too many people are aware that Rachel Maddow has a Phd in Political Science. She also did a podcast I heard on NPR in several parts about Nixon/Agnew ending with Watergate.
I was aware of the plot to overthrow the government just prior to WWII. Now I'll have to listen to get a better background of the story.
Update: It seems to only to go episode 4, so I guess she hasn't finished this series yet.
I didn't know she had a PhD, but she (and probably a team of people) are consistently impressive to me in their ability to pull together large amounts of cogent information and present it accurately on short time-frames for their shows. I'm assuming there is probably a capable team of people behind much of this, and so trying to credit a team, but whether it is her, or her and a small or large team, the main point is that it comes through that what I'm listening to takes a lot of work, and is well done, and now that I know she has a PhD it makes a bit more sense they are able to do it.
I'm aware she's on TV, but all I really know well of her, recently, is her podcasts. I don't know if they're identical to what is on TV, or if there is some additional aspect to them.
Maddow's Nixon/Agnew book, titled, "Bagman," is an excellent read. I lived through the Watergate period and thought I had a pretty good grasp of what took place, but it turned out I had only scratched the surface. I learned a lot from reading Bagman.
@Flyingsaucesir That's it! The name of the Nixon/Agnew podcast was also called "Bagman". I was tryign really had to remember it. Thanks.
More sad than anything is that no one learned nothing.
So true. Here we are almost a century later, with the last of the Holocaust survivors passing away, and American neo Nazis are hanging antisemitic banners on bridges. The Greatest Generation must be spinning in their graves.