Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-07-11
Books mentioned on How Pat Buchanan, Secret Nazi, Paved The Way For Donald Trump
In Episode 73, Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston to discuss Pat Buchanan. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.
Robert Evans recommended Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum, and discussed The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and others and Blood and politics by Leonard Zeskind.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
Discussed“Now, among other things, Pepe Cannon suggested his boss, the president, read an article in the Atlantic by Richard Hearnstein, a co-author of a little book you might have heard of called The Bell Curve.”
Where to get it
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Explaining Hitler
Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum is a critical analysis that examines the various psychological, historical, and biographical attempts to understand Adolf Hitler's life and the origins of the Holocaust.
Recommended“And if you if you actually have if if you are someone with like an an actual intellectual curiosity and when Hitler went bad there's a good book called explaining Hitler with just like his baby picture is like the cover of the book.”
Where to get it
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Blood and politics
Blood and Politics by Leonard Zeskind is a comprehensive historical study documenting the rise and evolution of white nationalism and the radical right in the United States.
Discussed“Next, according to Blood and Politics by Leonard Zeskin, which another great [ __ ] book, by the mid1 1980s, he had started waving the banner that became white nationalism's clarion call in the 21st century.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“No, not The Bell Jar. Don't mistake the two. I do like to think of Nixon reading Sylvia Pla and having himself a good cry.”
“Now Buchanan support for having the president visit Waffan SS Graves brought him into conflict with Ily Wiselle, a Holocaust survivor, author of Knight, and chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial Council.”
“Buchanan's campaign took off like wildfire among fringe political circles, only stymied slightly by the fact that one of his fundraisers, a British national named Mark Codell, was building a network of Buchanan supporters that included members of the National Alliance, an explicitly neo-Nazi group funded by George Lincoln Rockwell disciple William Pierce, author of the Turner Diaries.”