Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-02-01
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 167
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The Decline and Fall of the American Post Office Nut Country Revisited feat.
Michael Phillips discussed The Iron Curtain Over America by John Owen Beaty, Nut Country by Edward H. Miller, and The Turner Diaries by WILLIAM LUTHER. PIERCE. Margaret Killjoy recommended Rattling the Cages by Josh Davidson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Iron Curtain Over America
Discussed“John Owen Batty, the longtime chairman of the English Department of Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1951, authored one of the first and perhaps the best-selling of all time book promoting Holocaust denial, Iron Curtain Over America.”
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Nut Country
Nut Country by Edward H.
Discussed“By the 1950s, however, it had also acquired a reputation as the capital of crackpots and conspiracy theorists, a development that historian Edward H. Miller would describe in his book, Nut Country.”
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The Turner Diaries
The Turner Diaries is a 1978 dystopian novel written by William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald that depicts a violent white supremacist revolution and the overthrow of the United States government.
Discussed“He became a leading figure in the American Nazi party and at the age of 41 formed the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Beginning in 1975, he published in serial form one of the most influential examples of white supremacist literature, the Turner Diaries, a novel which told the story of white nationalist revolution in the United States in the near future.”
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Rattling the Cages
Rattling the Cages by Josh Davidson is a powerful and revealing collection of oral histories documenting the experiences of North American political prisoners.
Recommended“Eric is also the co-editor of a book called Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, which has a forward by none other than Angela Davis and is worth checking out.”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“You know, Rald [music] Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know [music] he was also a spy?”
“You know, Rald [music] Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know [music] he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“And do you want to talk about your book? So rattling the cages is out right now. It's with AK press and it is a oral history of the political prisoner movement hold from the mouths of those prisoners. It covers like 50 or so prisoners”
“Wait, what's that book called about? It's going to be called a clean hell and it's going to be about how I won at trial cuz like no one does that in the feds. Like 08% of people win in federal trial. And then how I got sent to the Federal Supermax”