Rachel Maddow on "Prequel" and the rise of the fascist movement in America
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It may be hard to fathom that some 20,000 Americans would gather under an image of George Washington for a pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. But Rachel Maddow has spent the last few years sifting through similarly sobering stories for her new book, "Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism" (Crown). It's a cautionary tale about threats to democracy set in the era of World War II.
"Not only were there lots of Americans who didn't want us to fight [in the war]," Maddow said, "but there was a lot of them who wanted us to fight on the other side, with the Nazis."
Bettmann via Getty ImagesMaddow, who hosts a show on MSNBC, first explored the story in a series of podcasts, "Ultra," focusing on surprising connections between Americans and Nazi interests: "The organizational diversity of people who were on that side of the calculous ahead of World War II is shocking to me," she said.
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