Maddow says there's a reason to know this history now because calculated efforts to undermine democracy, foment a coup, spread disinformation, overt actions involving not just a radical band of insurrectionists, but actual serving members of Congress working alongside them, it's terrible, but it's not unprecedented.įor 14 years, Maddow hosted MSNBC's flagship weekday evening show. In 1944, the plots led to the largest sedition trial in U.S. The group opposed America entering World War II. Those congressmen were associated with the America First Committee, a group with many antisemitic leaders. Senate and House of Representatives to launder and spread Nazi propaganda, often at taxpayers' expense. He also colluded with over 20 sitting members of the U.S. These groups worked with an agent from Hitler's government named George Viereck. government by force in the lead up to World War II. My guest, Rachel Maddow, has a new hit podcast series called "Ultra" in which she reports a little-known story about an ultra-right pro-Nazi movement that plotted to overthrow the U.S. The pictures on the listing page are of the actual book for sale, NOT stock photos. Carefully shipped in bubble wrap and a box. SIGNED by the author above her name on title page with black felt tip pen which bled some into the copyright page. As new hardcover in a as new, mylar covered, unclipped dust jacket.
Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, "Drift" will reinvigorate a "loud and jangly" political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power - and who gets to make those decisions.
Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to the war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's "Drift" argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails.
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