Okay, all right, so I told you, I told you, I, this book, I'm telling you, this is one you're going to pick up because you have to pick it up. You have to pick it up.

Prequel American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow.

And the book, which is Humdinger, as my dad used to say a lot when I was young and I don't know why but it always sort of got my attention.

Prequel an American fight against fascism.

It is an amazing, an amazing book

and it details chronicles the emergence of fascism in the late 30s and the 40s.

But now I want to talk about the heroes because you go through

and you lay out the cast of characters and we've talked about a number of them including

as before we went to break Henry Ford of yeah that Ford talk to us about the

folks who you really titled the book after.

The good guys, people who fought.

Those Americans who were fighting against this rise of fascism.

One of the interesting things to me about the whole sort of memory holding of this story.

The fact that we don't remember much of it is that there are some of the bad guys whose names have survived. Charles Coghlin, Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh. No, okay.

There is maybe only one of the good guys whose name has survived.

Everybody else totally lost to history.

Some of them, the people who are the biggest heroes in this fight

in the late 30s and early 40s, they in some way saved the country,

did incredible work and yet their work wasn't even recognized in their own in their own obituaries when they finally moved on.

But there's one who is a name that maybe some people

listening to us right now might know.

And it is Eric Severide that may mean anything.

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