Star-Spangled Fascism Podcast Bradley W. Hart

Bradley and author Charles Gallagher continue their exploration of the infamous ”Radio Priest,” Father Charles Coughlin and his Catholic militia, the Christian Front.  Coughlin encourages his fascist followers to take up arms and prepare for a coming revolution against the Communists and Jews.  But investigators discover the Front may be looking to provoke a violent event to instigate the overthrow of the U.S. Government.

Bradley and author Charles Gallagher explore the remarkable story of the Catholic priest turned fascist crusader, Father Charles Coughlin.  Known as the ”Radio Priest,” Coughlin used the airwaves to reach millions of listeners in the 1930s.  He mobilized hundreds of his militant followers to form an armed Anti-Semitic group known as the Christian Front.

In this episode, Bradley and Scott Beekman continue to explore the life and career of the aspiring American dictator, William Dudley Pelley. Better known as, “The Chief,” Pelley moves from spiritualism into politics, becomes embroiled in a Silver Legion government coup plot, and ultimately evolves into a New Age prophet.

In this episode, Bradley explores the strange history of one of America's first home-grown fascist leaders - William Dudley Pelley - better known as "The Chief."  Along with Pelley biographer, Scott Beekman, Hart walks us through Pelley's life journey: starting as young journalist, then an author, a Hollywood screenwriter, a mystic, a publisher, a politician, and ultimately "The Chief" of an armed U.S. fascist movement in the 1930s known as the Silver Legion.

Bradley W. Hart concludes the story of would-be ”American Hitler”, Fritz Julius Kuhn, the German-American Bund, and the Jewish plumber Isadore Greenbaum.  Along with contributors, Arnie Bernstein and Greenbaum’s grandson Brett Siciliano, Hart describes the critical moment Isadore recounts the fascist Kuhn in Madison Square Garden... and how both of their lives were forever changed from that day forward.

Bradley discusses the story of Fritz Julius Kuhn and the German-American Bund.  Along with contributors, Arnie Bernstein and Brett Siciliano, Hart lays out the origins of the Bund in the U.S. in the 1930s, and how Kuhn rose in stature striving to become the ”American Hitler.”