Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:32:32 AM
When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR : NPR »
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plotted-to-overthrow-fdr
Critics on the right worried that Roosevelt was a Communist, a socialist or the tool of a Jewish conspiracy. Critics on the left complained his policies didn’t go far enough. Some of Roosevelt’s opponents didn’t stop at talk. Though it’s barely remembered today, there was a genuine conspiracy to overthrow the president.
The Wall Street Putsch, as it’s known today, was a plot by a group of right-wing financiers.
“They thought that they could convince Roosevelt, because he was of their, the patrician class, they thought that they could convince Roosevelt to relinquish power to basically a fascist, military-type government,” Denton says.
FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
by Sally Denton
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plotted-to-overthrow-fdr
Critics on the right worried that Roosevelt was a Communist, a socialist or the tool of a Jewish conspiracy. Critics on the left complained his policies didn’t go far enough. Some of Roosevelt’s opponents didn’t stop at talk. Though it’s barely remembered today, there was a genuine conspiracy to overthrow the president.
The Wall Street Putsch, as it’s known today, was a plot by a group of right-wing financiers.
“They thought that they could convince Roosevelt, because he was of their, the patrician class, they thought that they could convince Roosevelt to relinquish power to basically a fascist, military-type government,” Denton says.
FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
by Sally Denton
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