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Westbrook Pegler: ‘The Miserable Fraud Called Freedom Riders’

In Archival Newspapers on 11 September 2008 tagged Community Organizers with 4 comments

Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969) is back in the news. A major syndicated newspaper columnist from 1933 until 1962, he’s currently enjoying a micro-moment, thanks to being quoted anonymously by Sarah Palin in her convention speech (Thomas Frank has the details in this WSJ column.) Although early on Pegler supported President Franklin Roosevelt, he soon moved rightward […]