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Nazis of Copley Square - The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front (Hardcover)
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Nazis of Copley Square - The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front (Hardcover)
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Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award The forgotten
history of American terrorists who, in the name of God, conspired
to overthrow the government and formed an alliance with Hitler. On
January 13, 1940, FBI agents burst into the homes and offices 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" in order 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 Nazis of Copley
Square, Charles Gallagher provides a crucial missing chapter in the
history of the American far right. The men of the Christian Front
imagined themselves as crusaders fighting for the spiritual
purification of the nation, under assault from godless Communism,
and they were hardly alone in their beliefs. The front traced its
origins to vibrant global Catholic theological movements of the
early twentieth century, such as the Mystical Body of Christ and
Catholic Action. The front's anti-Semitism was inspired by Sunday
sermons and by lay leaders openly espousing fascist and Nazi
beliefs. Gallagher chronicles the evolution of the front, the
transatlantic cloak-and-dagger intelligence operations that
subverted it, and the mainstream political and religious leaders
who shielded the front's activities from scrutiny. Nazis of Copley
Square is a grim tale of faith perverted to violent ends, and a
warning for those who hope to curb the spread of far-right
ideologies today.
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