The Fighting Bunch
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The Fighting Bunch

The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution

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The Fighting Bunch

The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution

About this book

New York Times –Bestselling Author: The true story of the men who brought their overseas combat experience to wage war against a corrupt political machine in their Tennessee hometown in 1946.
"Doggedly researched and briskly narrated, this rousing chronicle testifies to the importance of free and fair elections."? Publishers Weekly
Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies, funded by racketeering, and kept in place by stolen elections—the worst allegations of voter fraud ever reported to the Department of Justice, according to the U.S. Attorney General.
White and a group of GIs, "The Fighting Bunch"—men who fought and survived Guadalcanal, the Bulge, and Normandy—armed themselves and demanded a fair election. When they were refused the most basic rights they fought for, the men, all of whom believed they had seen the end of war, returned to the battlefield and risked their lives one last time.
After years of research, including conducting exclusive interviews with the remaining witnesses and reviewing archival radio broadcast and interview tapes, scrapbooks, letters, and diaries, Chris DeRose has reconstructed one of the greatest untold stories in American history.
"An astounding and rarely told story of an (eventually) successful response to police violence and voter suppression. It's a story of a community acting with unity against an intensely oppressive and corrupt institution." — Southern Review of Books
"This is an especially timely tale in a year of social and political turmoil. The pulse-pounding narrative of The Fighting Bunch takes us to a place in America where the struggle against evil did not end when the war did and once more people of good will had to take a courageous stand." —Tom Clavin, bestselling author of Tombstone and Wild Bill

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Information

Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781250266200
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. A Note on Names
  6. Players
  7. Prologue: In Search of History
  8. 1. Home, Sweet Home
  9. 2. On the Little Tennessee River
  10. 3. Warrior Roots
  11. 4. Hard Times
  12. 5. The Rise of Paul Cantrell
  13. 6. The Best Fights of the Season
  14. 7. Civics at McMinn High
  15. 8. “Politicos in McMinn Split Over Vote Robots”
  16. 9. The King of Tennessee
  17. 10. “For the Duration of the National Emergency”
  18. 11. Everything I Needed to Know About Geopolitics, I Learned from Frank Capra
  19. 12. George the Ripper
  20. 13. “We Were Like Young Tigers”
  21. 14. “A Monstrous, Shocking, and Revolting State of Affairs”
  22. 15. “High, Dry, and Bare Assed”
  23. 16. “U.S. Indicts Six for Vote Fraud”
  24. 17. “Come to the Rescue of a Helpless People”
  25. 18. “Say a Prayer for Your Pal on Guadalcanal.”
  26. 19. United States v. Lattimore et al.
  27. 20. “No Atheists on Tarawa”
  28. 21. United States v. William Rucker
  29. 22. From Athens to Normandy
  30. 23. “I Don’t Know Which Way Is Up”
  31. 24. “Killed in the Service of His Country in Athens, Tennessee”
  32. 25. “The American Way of Life”
  33. 26. The Best Year of Their Lives
  34. 27. In the Basement of the Robert E. Lee Hotel
  35. 28. “A Thorn in the Flesh”
  36. 29. The Ballad of Otto Kennedy
  37. 30. “Your Vote Will Be Counted as Cast”
  38. 31. “Do You Think They’re Going to Let You Win This Election?”
  39. 32. The Fourth of July
  40. 33. “The Votes and Hearts of McMinn County”
  41. 34. The Dark Corner
  42. 35. The Battle of the Garage
  43. 36. “Democracy, Athens Style”
  44. 37. The Guns of August
  45. 38. The Night Watch
  46. 39. “Groping Back to Normalcy”
  47. 40. Fort Athens
  48. 41. Glorious Victory
  49. 42. Unknown Subjects
  50. 43. “Let Us Live Together and Love One Another”
  51. Epilogue
  52. Acknowledgments
  53. Photographs
  54. Notes
  55. Index
  56. Also by Chris Derose
  57. Praise for The Fighting Bunch
  58. About the Author
  59. Newsletter Sign-up
  60. Contents
  61. Copyright