Radio Priest Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio

Name: Radio Priest Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio
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ISBN: 9780684824031

ISBN-10: 0684824035

ISBN-13: 9780684824031

Edition: 1996

Authors: David Warren

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"In 1926, Father Charles Coughlin established The Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Over the course of the next four decades, Coughlin built this small Catholic church into a large, ornate, highly profitable and, to many, infamous mecca. Coughlin began his radio career in the late 1920s with a weekly broadcast known popularly as "The Children's Hour," in which he told biblical stories to children. While these early programs were merely the tame sermons of a parish priest, they soon became paranoid political tirades. The program became known as "The Hour of Power," and by the late thirties it was the most controversial broadcast in America. Coughlin used the program and the…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 7/3/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Vox Populi


A Child of Circumstance


Inventing the Political Soap Opera


A Player on the New Deal Team


Off the FDR Bandwagon


"I Know the Pulse of the People"


"Two and a Half Rival Messiahs"


All the World's a Stage


Foreign Intrigues


"Jewish Actions Which Cause Cruel Persecution"


Charity Begins at Home


The Trial of the "Brooklyn Boys"


Just a Soldier in the Pope's Army


"Sentenced to the Silence of a Sealed Sepulchre"


"And the Truth Shall Be Known"


The Ghost of Royal Oak


Appendix


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index