Item description for SEVEN DAYS IN MAY - Knebel & Bailey - THRILLER

Wear & chipping to edges & corners, with scratches, indentations, rub-wear & soiling, plus the following - FRONT COVER: Vertical reader crease right of spine, Xd by 7/32" stress crease at upper spine edge, w/ 1/6" stress crease below & 3/16" stress crease below that; 1-1/2" crease from left top edge; 5-3/16" crease from right top edge to mid-lower right edge, Xd by 2-1/4" crease from lower right midcover, w/ 3-16" tear; faint 3/4" corner crease top right corner; faint 3/8" corner crease lower right corner, w/lesser creases inside; 1/2" crease left midcover, near 4 lesser creases. - SPINE: Slight lean to right; slight bowing; 1 top to bottom spine crease; publisher glue bubbles. - BACK COVER: Vertical reader crease left of spine; 9/16" corner crease lower left corner; 7/8" crease left top edge, w/ 3/4" crease below; 1/4" crease left midcover; 3/16" crease midcover, near 1/8" crease; 3/16" crease upper right midcover, w/ 3/4" crease above, w/ 1/2" crease below; 5/8" crimp right top edge; 1-3/4" rub-wear mark upper left midcover; 1/4" lift mark right lower edge. - INTERIOR: Browning pages/inside covers; some page corner folds. - OVERALL CONDITION = Good Minus

The authors (reportedly) had based the book primarily upon the difficulties which Presidents DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER and then JOHN F. KENNEDY were having with U. S. Army General EDWIN A. WALKER, who had been indoctrinating troops using publications from the extremist right-wing political organization, THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY, forcing Walker to resign. Walker actively campaigned against President Kennedy, and attempted to stir up race riots in Arkansas and Mississippi, and toured the country with leaders of other far-right conservative organizations.

BUT. . .little known to the authors, was that there actually HAD been an attempted coup in 1933 against President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, which is historically referred to as "THE BUSINESS PLOT" or "THE WALL STREET PUTSCH," a clumsily contrived coup pieced together by a handful of corporate businessman and former U. S. Army officers, who believed that Roosevelt's domestic plans to control the ongoing financial depression in the United States, would be devastating for business interests. Their intent was to convince a very popular military officer to lead several hundred thousand disgruntled World War I veterans down Pennsylvania Avenue, and overthrow the Roosevelt presidency, establishing the military officer as the new "Leader" of the United States, based largely upon the model of BENITO MUSSOLINI in Italy. Fortunately for American democracy, the military leader whom they had chosen was U. S. Marine General SMEDLEY BUTLER, who (though a Republican), was also a staunch patriot -- and he blew the whistle on the whole plot, from which arose the first House Un-American Activities Committee gathering; and, though the HUAC meetings were held in secret, the threat of any more "BUSINESS PLOTS" was put on hold, until Roosevelt's death in 1945.