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Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award “A great, but
deeply unsettling, revelation…This book is more than an account
of Boston in wartime. It is a warning.”—Boston Globe “The
rare book by a scholar that is such a page-turner it is hard to put
down…A potent brew of spy story, detective story, and frank,
fearless account of how a significant wing of the Roman Catholic
Church in the United States spawned a movement aimed at defending
Hitler and sabotaging America’s war effort.”—David I.
Kertzer, author of The Pope and Mussolini “[A] well told,
expertly researched, and much-needed history of the Christian
Front, an organization that presages today’s far-right
activity…Riveting.”—Commonweal On January 13, 1940, FBI
agents burst into the homes of seventeen members of the Christian
Front, seizing guns, ammunition, and homemade bombs. J. Edgar
Hoover’s charges were incendiary: the group, he alleged, was
planning to incite a revolution and install a “temporary
dictatorship” to stamp out Jewish and Communist influence in the
United States. Interviewed in his jail cell, the front’s
ringleader was unbowed: “All I can say is—long live Christ the
King! Down with Communism!” In this brilliant work of historical
reconstruction, Charles Gallagher provides a crucial missing
chapter in the history of the American far right. The men of the
Christian Front imagined themselves to be crusaders fighting for
the spiritual purification of the nation, and they were hardly
alone in their beliefs. Nazis of Copley Square chronicles the
evolution of the front, the transatlantic cloak-and-dagger
intelligence operations that subverted it, and the political and
religious leaders who shielded it from scrutiny. A riveting tale of
faith perverted to violent ends, it offers a potent warning to
those who hope to curb the spread of far-right ideologies today.
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Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Charles Gallagher
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-29387-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-674-29387-8 |
Barcode: |
9780674293878 |
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