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The Rise and Decline of Liberalism by Thomas P. Neill, Ph. D. Quite a journey through time and thought.
"Road to Mecca" ? may be?
I do like Michael Savage.
That is Countdown to Mecca. You won't believe the ending. :eeek:
"Secret Armies: The New Technique of Nazi Warfare," another of journalist John L. Spivak's investigative exposes. Published in 1939, here Spivak takes a look at the activities of Nazi agents thruout the Western Hemisphere thru the latter half of the 1930s. While the widespread influence of Nazi espionage in the United States is reasonably well-known, the activities of Hitler's agents elsewhere is less documented. Spivak goes in depth in discussing Nazi influence in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, and there are some interesting revelations, not the least of which is the involvement of American "Reverend" Gerald B. Winrod with Fascist intrigue in Mexico. Winrod, a jackleg fundamentalist preacher from Kansas, had long been involved with anti-Semitic activities in the midwest, but Spivak here presents convincing evidence that he was closely tied to Nazi espionage south of the border, from where he had broadcast back to the US from a "border blaster" Mexican radio station. As with his Coughlin book, Spivak supports his case with photostatic copies of relevant documentation.
As a side note, Winrod's son Gordon took over the family business in the 1960s, and was a prominent and violent figure in modern fascist/neo-Nazi/anti-Semitic/"Christian Identity" movement circles until he went to prison in the 1990s for kidnapping his own grandchildren.
With Spivak as well as any other author, you have to consider where they come from. A communist writer is not going to have anything good to say about religion and would in fact want to subjugate it.
I don't think any professing Christian, let alone a commie, could have anything good to say about "The Reverend" Winrod, a man who taught and perpetuated the idea that Jews feasted on the blood of sacrificed Gentile babies. He was, with the possible exception of Gerald Lucifer KKKodfish Smith, the most repulsive denizen of the prewar Fascist right, not just politically but as a human being.
His boy Gordon is an even more disturbing piece of work, but his affiliation with the "Christian Identity" movement is very interesting -- one of the American founders of that movement was none other than William J. Cameron, a close confidant and personal radio spokesman of none other than Henry Ford. That movement is still very much active down to this day, promoting the idea that white Aryans are the true Israel of God. Wheels within wheels within wheels.
No, Gerald Winrod was a Nazi, who was formally charged with sedition in 1942 and the death of the judge in that case was the only thing that kept him from being convicted. Even your boy J. Edgar Hoover knew what he was, and who was paying his way.
Gordon Winrod is a convicted kidnapper, and vicious racist and anti-Semite who preaches "Christian Identity" theology -- a belief system that, among other things, directly influenced the Oklahoma City bombings in 1995.
I know we jerk each other's chains about this stuff, and much of it's in fun. But in all seriousness I'll take a guy who passed along information to the Russians about Ukrainain nationalists who were in league with the Nazis -- information he also provided to the FBI -- any day of the week over these two pieces of Fascist filth. And I will offer no apology whatsoever about that.
Wow! I never knew that Michael Savage wrote a novel. I do have some of his other books.
I'm reading Moby Dick again right now. I love the prose.
I recently picked up a copy of the Rockwell Kent edition, which repopularized the book in the 1930s -- the illustrations perfectly complement the prose. I had read it in high school and didn't care for it -- but Kent's images really brought the story to life.
I've only just started -- it's my "porch book" for this summer, the one I keep out on the porch to read when I get an afternoon to myself -- but as I say, the illustrations really do help. Kent's art is really unique and dynamic.
I skipped most of the "facts about whales" stuff when I read it in high school, as I suspect most people do, and cheated by reading the "Classics Illustrated" comic book version along with the paperback we were issued. So far I appreciate it more than I did when I was sixteen, but there's still a long ways to go.
The Kent edition has had many reissues, and is still in print thru Modern Library, so it should be easy enough to latch onto a copy.