
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In this episode, Bradley explores the strange history of one of America's first home-grown fascist leaders - William Dudley Pelley - better known as "The Chief." Along with Pelley biographer, Scott Beekman, Hart walks us through Pelley's life journey: starting as young journalist, then an author, a Hollywood screenwriter, a mystic, a publisher, a politician, and ultimately "The Chief" of an armed U.S. fascist movement in the 1930s known as the Silver Legion.
By Bradley W. Hart4.7
179179 ratings
In this episode, Bradley explores the strange history of one of America's first home-grown fascist leaders - William Dudley Pelley - better known as "The Chief." Along with Pelley biographer, Scott Beekman, Hart walks us through Pelley's life journey: starting as young journalist, then an author, a Hollywood screenwriter, a mystic, a publisher, a politician, and ultimately "The Chief" of an armed U.S. fascist movement in the 1930s known as the Silver Legion.

37,247 Listeners

12,258 Listeners

8,794 Listeners

7,350 Listeners

5,867 Listeners

3,934 Listeners

7,674 Listeners

14,337 Listeners

6,988 Listeners

51,054 Listeners

9,295 Listeners

11,013 Listeners

31,821 Listeners

1,460 Listeners

4,433 Listeners