A BuzzFlash reader alerted us to this book:

"Might I suggest "The Plot to Seize the White House" by Jules Archer as a perfect BuzzFlash premium.

It's an incredible 1974 book, re-released earlier this year (2007), about the conspiracy of US financial barons to stage a military coup to overthrow FDR in 1934. The connections to current corporate ambitions make it very pertinent to US politics today. And it's a very good read, very detailed and well researched by historian Archer.

Hope to see it on the BuzzFlash list soon.

Tristram Lozaw
Boston MA

BuzzFlash has covered this plot through a recent long BBC piece that detailed it, through the book "War is a Racket" by the military hero who disclosed the coup plans, Smedley Butler, and through other articles posted on BuzzFlash. This is not some conspiracy theory; it is a true story. (And Prescott Bush was, apparently, a co-conspirator. Figures.)

From the publisher:

"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."