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Ride the Tyger: The Lost, Unauthorized Oral Biography of Madison Hadder by John L. Green

Ride the Tyger: The Lost, Unauthorized Oral Biography of Madison Hadder by John L. Green

Perlstein, David

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1663276277
ISBN13: 9781663276278
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Oct 15 2025
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This page-turning oral biography explores the roots of today's far-right American politics from the Depression through McCarthyism.

Madison Hadder's smalltown childhood before and after the Great War torments him with an abusive father and numerous family traumas. In the 1930s, Madison becomes a union organizer and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt. Disillusioned, he tumbles down the rabbit hole of arch-conservativism. Becoming a local radio and newspaper personality, Madison first advocates for the Louisiana Democratic populist Huey Long, then turns to the antisemitic radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin and the Nazi-sympathetic American hero Charles Lindbergh. A wealthy industrialist launches him into politics. After World War Two, Madison meets and champions Wisconsin's Red-baiting senator, Joseph McCarthy. His personal life a shambles, Madison suffers a terrible fall, rises, then experiences a final, tragic descent.

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