The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution
The incredible, untold story of the WWII veterans who destroyed a corrupt political machinethe only successful armed rebellion on US soil since the War of Independence.They fought for freedom abroad and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, kept in power by violence and stolen elections - the worst allegations of vote fraud ever brought to the attention of the Department of Justice, according to the Attorney General.The GIs formed a nonpartisan, all-veteran ticket. On Election Day, the GIs and their supporters found themselves assaulted, intimidated, arrested, and even shot. A small band of veterans - the Fighting Bunch - armed themselves and marched on the jail to demand an honest count. The sheriff and his men refused. These men who thought they had seen the last of war returned to the battlefield, one last time.This episode in U.S. history has never been more relevant, but has never been fully told. At the time of the rebellion, national news outlets jammed the phone lines into town, asking questions before the shooting had stopped. Journalists beat a path to Athens from across the country. Hollywood came calling, but the people of McMinn County had moved on.After years of research, including exclusive interviews with the remaining witnesses, archival radio broadcast and interview tapes, scrapbooks, letters, and diaries, author Chris DeRose has reconstructed one of the seminalyet untoldevents in American election history.
yazar | Chris Derose |
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Tarafından yayınlandı | 3 Kasım 2020 |
21,6 x 0,6 x 27,9 cm Kolektif 21,6 x 0,2 x 27,9 cm Emily Grace 25 Şubat 2018 Collectif 3 Kasım 2020 Insight Editions 28 Şubat 2018 23 Temmuz 2017 22 Mayıs 2016 21 x 0,5 x 29,6 cm 12 Eylül 2017 J B SBoon edition cumulus 14,8 x 0,5 x 21 cm 14,8 x 0,7 x 21 cm 21 x 0,5 x 29,7 cm
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yazar | Chris Derose |
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isbn 10 | 125026619X |
isbn 13 | 978-1250266194 |
Yayımcı | ST MARTINS PR |
Tarafından yayınlandı The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution | 3 Kasım 2020 |
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