Immerse In Gabriel Over The White House: A Novel Of The Presidency Composed By Thomas F. Tweed Accessible As Hardcover

words to describe this piece of Totalitarian Propaganda,

My God!

Judson C, 'Judd' Hammond ,a political hack, is elected to the White House during the Depression, After surviving a car crash he embarks on a program of national recovery, The Constitution is suspended. Congress is dissolved when it tries to impeach him, The president disbands his cabinet and assumes full dictatorial powers, He threatens other nations with war if they don't repay their war loans and gangsters are rounded up,locked up on Ellis Island, put through a military tribunal, found guilty and immediately taken outside and executed by a military firing squad.
He orders the formation of a new “Army of Construction” answerable only to him, spends billions on one New Deallike program after another, and nationalizes the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
The result of all this The world yes the world enters into a period of peace and prosperity never before experienced in Human history.
A pure fantasy for all the would be dictators out there,

Originally titled "Rinehard" the author ,T, F. Tweed, was a former colonel in the British Army, Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel at the age of twentysix inand awarded the Military Cross he later became political adviser to David Loyd George who served as the Prime Minister of England's Wartime Coalition Governmentand then served as the leader of the Liberal Party in the's.
Tweed was a proponent of government activism and evidently saw democracy as a hindrance, The strange thing is that as far as I can find out he never even visited the United States during his lifetime!

If this had remained a novel it would probably be forgotten, but inMGM made it into a movie starring Walter Huston John Huston's father as President Hammond.
The executive producer was William Randolph Hearst and evidently President Roosevelt was a big fan of the movie, The movie was released just a few weeks after FDR was sworn into office, Personally I like the irony of a newspaper publisher

paying for a movie that is about a president who suspends the Constitution which ,of course, includes thest Amendment.
Oh well I guess Hearst felt like he would be exempt from such an action, I would also be less than honest if I failed to mention that "Gabriel Over the White House" was a hit at the box office in.
Evidently many Americans felt that a political strongman was what was needed,

If nothing else the novel and movie show just how democracy was teetering on the brink in the early years of the Depression across the planet.
Many felt like what was needed was a strongman who could cut the Gordian Knot and make things better, I wish I could say this is just a historical curiosity in, but I think there are still many who would agree with Colonel Tweed.


A truly bizarre work, After being hurt in a car crash, a U, S. president raised to that high office by Big Business changes from a milquetoast into a dynamo, By turning his back on the bosses and his fellow politiciansand, incidentally, the Constitutionhe rids the country of poverty and crime and returns it to prosperity.
But he soon finds that success of that kind comes at a price, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Frederic Tweed MC was a British Army officer and novelist, He was commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers, He was awarded the Military Cross in World War I and at the age ofwas named the youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army at the time.
He became a political adviser to David Lloyd George fromuntil Tweeds death from a stroke, Tweed was primarily famous for his novels among which were Blind Mouths and Rinehard, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Frederic Tweed MC was a British Army officer and novelist, He was commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers, He was awarded the Military Cross in World War I and at the age ofwas named the youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army at the time.
He became a political adviser to David Lloyd George fromuntil Tweed's death from a stroke, Tweed was primarily famous for his novels among which were Blind Mouths and Rinehard, sitelink.