Saw this one in B&N tonight and guessed correctly it was from Regnery.
The influential conservative publishing house Regnery has just released a book that argues, contrary to popular belief, that aviator and political leader Charles Lindbergh was neither anti-semitic nor pro-German, but rather was the victim of an unfounded smear campaign by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
According to promotional material, the book, "Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry That Divided America" by James Duffy, argues that Lindbergh was the target of a "vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt" that "blighted his reputation forever." FDR's campaign, the book argues, also amounted to a "modern-day playbook for the Left and their attack on those who speak out against them."
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We're not experts on Lindbergh, and obviously he was a major and complex historical figure. However, when we asked City University of New York History Professor David Gordon, who is an expert and has written on the topic, he told us that there's good reason Lindbergh is considered an anti-Semite.
Gordon points first to a famous speech Lindbergh made in Des Moines in September 1941, in which Lindbergh named three parties -- the British, the Roosevelt Administration, and the Jews -- who were pushing for war. He said of the latter group:
Instead of agitating for war, Jews in this country should be opposing it in every way, for they will be the first to feel its consequences. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/21/regnery_charles_lindberghAmerica First Committee:
It claimed 135,000 members in 60 chapters in Illinois, its strongest state.<2> Fundraising drives produced about $370,000 from some 25,000 contributors. Nearly half came from a few millionaires such as
William H. Regnery, H. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Company, General Robert E. Wood of Sears-Roebuck, Sterling Morton of Morton Salt Company, publisher Joseph M. Patterson (New York Daily News) and his cousin publisher Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune). Future President John F. Kennedy sent a contribution, with a note saying "What you are doing is vital."
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Nothing did more to escalate the tensions than the speech he delivered to a rally in Des Moines, Iowa on September 11, 1941. In that speech he identified the forces pulling America into the war as the British, the Roosevelt administration, and the Jews. While he expressed sympathy for the plight of the Jews in Germany, he argued that America's entry into the war would serve them little better. He said in part:
It is not difficult to understand why Jewish people desire the overthrow of Nazi Germany. The persecution they suffered in Germany would be sufficient to make bitter enemies of any race. No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution the Jewish race suffered in Germany. But no person of honesty and vision can look on their pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy, both for us and for them.
Instead of agitating for war the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few farsighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_CommitteeAll these RW'ers who revel in the U.S. fighting Hitler & the Nazis, they would've been America First members!
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