Episodes

  • Episode 10 - The Godfather
    Jun 11 2024

    Bradley and Nancy Beck Young discuss a man that was labeled by Life Magazine as America’s #1 intellectual fascist. Lawrence Dennis held popular sway over national politicians, business elites, college students and all those who gravitated to fascism in the 1930s. But, Dennis hid a personal secret that would have ended his celebrated career before it started.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 9 - The Titan
    May 28 2024

    Industrialist Henry Ford was an engineering prodigy who literally changed the way Americans lived their lives in the early 20th Century. But, Ford was also a staunch antisemite who used his great wealth to influence aspiring fascists worldwide. Along with contributors Pamela Nadell and Nancy Beck Young, Bradley will explore this American titan’s dark side.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 8 - The Prosecutor
    May 14 2024

    FBI historian, Dr. John Fox, and Bradley retrace the remarkable life story of a stalwart anti-fascist crusader — U.S. Justice Department attorney, O. John Rogge. Rogge prosecuted political bosses and government officials while facing death threats. But when he shifted his attention to America’s home-grown fascists, the prosecutor would soon attract his most powerful opponents of all.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 7 - The Priest and the Christian Front - Part 2
    Apr 30 2024

    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.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 6 - The Priest and the Christian Front - Part 1
    Apr 16 2024

    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.

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    34 mins
  • Episode 5 - The Chief and the Legion - Part 2
    Apr 2 2024

    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.

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    34 mins
  • Episode 4 - The Chief and the Legion - Part 1
    Mar 19 2024

    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.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 3 - The Fuehrer and the Plumber - Part 2
    Mar 5 2024

    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 recounts the critical moment Isadore confronts the fascist Kuhn in Madison Square Garden... and how both of their lives were forever changed from that day forward.

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    26 mins