1996, ISBN: 0684824035

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[EAN: 9780684824031], [PU: NY. 1996. The Free Press / Simon & Schuster], Jacket, red & black 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. ver… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780684824031], [PU: NY. 1996. The Free Press / Simon & Schuster], Jacket, red & black 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). ix+376p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. appendix. notes. references. index. biography. american history. politics. new deal. great depression. ~ In 1926, Father Charles Coughlin established The Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Over the course of the next four decades, Coughlin built this small Catholic church into a large, ornate, highly profitable and, to many, infamous mecca. Coughlin began his radio career in the late 1920s with a weekly broadcast known popularly as "The Children's Hour," in which he told biblical stories to children. While these early programs were merely the tame sermons of a parish priest, they soon became paranoid political tirades. The program became known as "The Hour of Power," and by the late thirties it was the most controversial broadcast in America. Coughlin used the program and the new medium of radio to command an army of the disaffected. By giving expression to their basest fears and hatreds, he virtually created the "lunatic fringe," a new American phenomenon that inspired hate mobs to go on violent rampages and encouraged self~styled fascist organizations like the Christian Front and the German~American Bund to plot the downfall of the federal government and the disenfranchisement of American Jews. At the height of his fame in the 1930s, Charles Coughlin was the first American demagogue to achieve international fame and popularity on the radio. He gave incendiary speeches in which he vilified FDR, and professed a coded anti~Semitism that blamed Jews for everything from the Depression to American involvement in World War II. To fund his various schemes, including a third~party bid for the presidency in 1936, Coughlin accepted money from and traded propaganda with the Nazis, and amassed great wealth through shady business deals. Until he was silenced by the Catholic Church in 1940, Coughlin wielded tremendous political power and changed forever the voice of America. Based on more than twenty years of research, including unprecedented access to FBI and Catholic Church archives, Radio Priest is a definitive and timely biography, including revelations of Coughlin's ties to the Nazis and to fascist leaders such as Mussolini and the English aristocrat Oswald Mosley. In April 1995, after home~grown American extremists were arrested for bombing the federal building in Oklahoma City, stories about obscure radio personalities like Mark Koernke (Mark from Michigan) began appearing in The New York Times, asking if slogans like Koernke's "I love my country. I fear my government" could have incited such violence. But as Donald Warren argues in Radio Priest, to understand the paranoid fringe fully, one must understand its populist, deeply American roots. As radio makes its "Mark," and as populist figures like Pat Buchanan are redirecting American politics toward economic isolationism, xenophobia, and the angry working class, the life and legacy of Charles Coughlin are chilling reminders of the forgotten history we are condemned to repeat., Books<

1996, ISBN: 0684824035

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[EAN: 9780684824031], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.], CHARLES COUGHLIN, HATE RADIO, Biography & Autobiography|General, Performing Arts|Radio|Re… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780684824031], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.], CHARLES COUGHLIN, HATE RADIO, Biography & Autobiography|General, Performing Arts|Radio|Reference, Jacket, From Publishers Weekly In 1942, with the U.S. at war with a Nazi regime long praised by Father Charles Coughlin of the Shrine of the Little Flower in the Detroit community of Little Oak, Archbishop Mooney, his exasperated superior, finally put an end to the "unpriestly folly." Coughlin's slick radio sermons had already been stopped; now he was warned to cease involvement with the rabble-rousing publication he had founded, Social Justice. To a perturbed President Roosevelt, Mooney apologized: "The arena of politics is no place for one whose ecclesiastical character surrounds him. with a protective consideration he personally could never claim." Yet the silenced saint of the populist Right would retain ties to his church until his death in 1979 at the age of 88. A combination of Huey Long and Joe McCarthy in clerical cassock, with a touch of Goebbels thrown in, Coughlin was the first and most successful radio preacher of the interwar years. His blend of anti-Communism and anti-Semitism, combined with mellifluously menacing anti-government invective, raised millions of dollars from the discontented for Coughlin's various projects. Between 1926 and 1941, more mail arrived for him most weeks than was received at the White House. At his urging, loyal listeners would fire tens of thousands of telegrams to Congress, where he was feared for his ability to mobilize the otherwise inarticulate. His Sunday "Hour of Power" became an uneasily accurate title, intimidating many of his political, business and religious targets. Stifled after Pearl Harbor, he would never regain his clout. Although Warren (The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation) has done his homework, he has not done justice to his subject. Sloppily written and whipsawed by bewildering time shifts, the biography evokes a career in bigotry clearly ominous even amid Warren's narrative lapses. Film rights: Goldfarb & Graybill; all other rights, Simon & Schuster. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.<

1996, ISBN: 9780684824031

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Free Press, 1996. From Publishers Weekly In 1942, with the U.S. at war with a Nazi regime long praised by Father Charles Coughlin of the Shrine of the Litt… Mehr…

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Free Press, 1996. From Publishers Weekly In 1942, with the U.S. at war with a Nazi regime long praised by Father Charles Coughlin of the Shrine of the Little Flower in the Detroit community of Little Oak, Archbishop Mooney, his exasperated superior, finally put an end to the "unpriestly folly." Coughlin's slick radio sermons had already been stopped; now he was warned to cease involvement with the rabble-rousing publication he had founded, Social Justice. To a perturbed President Roosevelt, Mooney apologized: "The arena of politics is no place for one whose ecclesiastical character surrounds him... with a protective consideration he personally could never claim." Yet the silenced saint of the populist Right would retain ties to his church until his death in 1979 at the age of 88. A combination of Huey Long and Joe McCarthy in clerical cassock, with a touch of Goebbels thrown in, Coughlin was the first and most successful radio preacher of the interwar years. His blend of anti-Communism and anti-Semitism, combined with mellifluously menacing anti-government invective, raised millions of dollars from the discontented for Coughlin's various projects. Between 1926 and 1941, more mail arrived for him most weeks than was received at the White House. At his urging, loyal listeners would fire tens of thousands of telegrams to Congress, where he was feared for his ability to mobilize the otherwise inarticulate. His Sunday "Hour of Power" became an uneasily accurate title, intimidating many of his political, business and religious targets. Stifled after Pearl Harbor, he would never regain his clout. Although Warren (The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation) has done his homework, he has not done justice to his subject. Sloppily written and whipsawed by bewildering time shifts, the biography evokes a career in bigotry clearly ominous even amid Warren's narrative lapses. Film rights: Goldfarb & Graybill; all other rights, Simon & Schuster. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. . First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine., Free Press, 1996<

1996, ISBN: 9780684824031

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Free Press. DJ in archival cover price clipped. with a full number line starting with 1. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1996., Free Press, 1996

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