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September, 2006
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William Dudley Pelley
A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult

By Scott Beekman
(Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 269. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

On December 7, 1940, the Noblesville [Indiana] Ledger announced that a new business was coming to town. Only later did townspeople learn that the firm, a printing plant, was associated with William Dudley Pelley, a controversial figure known as the "High Priest of American Fascism." 1
      Pelley's path to Indiana was a snaking one, along which he had seemingly reinvented himself several times. Scott Beekman expertly unravels the twists in Pelley's life in William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult. . . .
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