Ride the Tyger

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