
The Plot to Seize the Whitehouse
The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR
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Narrated by:
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Ken Maxon
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By:
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Jules Archer
Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy industrialists - in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League - planned to overthrow the U.S. government in a fascist coup. Their plan was to turn discontented veterans into American "brown shirts," depose F.D.R., and stop the New Deal. They clandestinely asked Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to become the first American Caesar. He, though, was a true patriot and revealed the plot to journalists and to Congress. In a time when a sitting President has invoked national security to circumvent constitutional checks and balances, this episode puts the spotlight on attacks upon our democracy and the individual courage needed to repel them.
©2007 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. Originally published by Hawthorne Books, Inc., New York in 1973. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Editorial reviews
The Plot to Seize the White House tells the story of how, in 1933, a group of industrialists (including J. P. Morgan) working with the Ku Klux Klan and the American Liberty League, hatched a plan to take over the White House from President Franklin Roosevelt. Had they succeeded world history would have been completely changed.
With novelistic detail, Jules Archer shows how the plan included turning half a million disgruntled veterans into American versions of Nazi "brown shirts" and installing General Smedley Darlington Butler, Medal of Honor recipient, as the leader of a new Fascist government. Archer details Butler’s patriotic decision to reveal the plot to the news media and congress.
Ken Maxon delivers a measured, well-paced performance of this real-life conspiracy.
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Interesting theme but disappointing book
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The reader needs to learn to pronounce the words correctly before narrating the book.
Not the book advertised
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I did thoroughly enjoy this audiobook and found it very illuminating. I learned a great deal. It is also thought provoking and has relevance today. Just understand that one is purchasing a biography of a great man as mush as a story of political intrigue and upheaval. Thank You...
A Great Work of Non Fiction, Largely A Biography, Than About "The Plot"
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Stranger than Fiction
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Unknown history comes alive
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The narrator was generally good, but mispronounced some words that made me cringe.
Wow!
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Hard to believe story
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I was disappointed in the content. I have known about the plot to overthrow the FDR and the US Government and about Smedley Butler's role in exposing it for years. I was hoping to find out more about who was behind it, why they are not household names in the same way Aaron Burr, the Rosenbergs, or Donald Trump are in regards to treason. I wanted to know about the investigation and the coverup.
I wanted to know whether the plot was a "Cocktail Insurrection" misinterpreted by a hallucinating Smedley Butler as it is referred to by deniers of the plot discussed in the book.
But there is no apparent research to fill out the narrative of the book, other that what is readable in the New York Times of the era, never a source of information that would be uncomfortable to the plutocrats in the Hamptons.
I did learn more about Smedley Butler from the discussion of his career stretching back to the early 1900's, That information is worth spending time with and is covered well in this book.
My disappointment is that I hoped this book would be more enlightening about this barely known and poorly covered historical whitewash. It isn't.
Mostly biography, not much about the plot
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The book would have benefited from stronger editing
Educational but rather dry and repetitive
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What did you like best about this story?
This opened an era and a sequence of events that I had never read about in depth. I'm a former soldier, son of several generations of soldiers, yet I never knew fully of the cynical way that the military had been used to further business interests in the first part of the twentieth century. I had my suspicions, many of them confirmed by first-hand experience in Viet Nam, but this book made me look at that era of my life, and the current mess in the Mideast, in an entirely different light.What didn’t you like about Ken Maxon’s performance?
Mr. Maxon is difficult to listen to, principally because of his tendency to pronounce the letter A as "a" rather than "uh," which is commonly accepted in standard pronunciation. If the publisher knew of this rather stilted tendency and approved the work anyway, well so be it.Good storytelling, poor voice-over
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