The Coup America Never Saw: How Wealthy Businessmen Tried to Overthrow FDR

In 1933, a group of powerful Wall Street executives allegedly plotted to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install a fascist military government. Their plan? Recruit decorated Marine Corps General Smedley Butler to lead a coup, only to have Butler secretly expose the entire conspiracy to Congress. Discover the shocking true story of the Business Plot - a near-successful attempt to replace American democracy with a corporate-controlled regime that came closer to succeeding than most history books admit.

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