This is the fountainhead of 2Oth Century American conspiracy theories. Name checks Hofstadter. Older "deep states". Repub Party barnacles and tentacles.

[Mark Kohut]

Rick Perlstein gives a lot of space and history to the mail order guy's
base of work, aggregatable to the present.
I hope this biographer is wrong
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n01/colin-kidd/big-stick-swagger?utm_campaign=20220108icymi&utm_content=20220108icymi%20CID_933d47949b4b77267ac2d8bbfaa8abcd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&utm_term=Read%20more