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Mr Gasket Thermostat Housing 2661; 45¡ Fixed Chrome Zinc-alloy for Chevy SBC/BBC

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Mr Gasket Thermostat Housing 2661; 45¡ Fixed Chrome Zinc-alloy for Chevy SBC/BBCOverview: Precision die cast, these water necks are first polished to a high luster, then chrome plated. Features an O ring style seal to prevent water leaks. Comes with O ring gasket and mounting bolts. Features: Application: Year Make Model Submodel Engine Size 1966 1967 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 283 4. 6 V8 1968 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 396 6. 5 V8 1968 1973 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 307 5 V8 1969 1974 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 350 5. 7 V8 1970 1972 Chevrolet

Overview:

Precision die cast, these water necks are first polished to a high luster, then chrome plated. Features an O-ring style seal to prevent water leaks. Comes with O-ring gasket and mounting bolts.

Features:

    Application:

    Year Make Model Submodel Engine Size
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC K25/K2500 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC K35/K3500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC K35/K3500 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1970 - 1971 GMC K35/K3500 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC K35/K3500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1968 GMC K35/K3500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1973 - 1974 GMC K35/K3500 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1971 - 1975 GMC Sprint 350/5.7 V8
    1971 - 1973 GMC Sprint 307/5 V8
    1971 - 1975 GMC Sprint 454/7.4 V8
    1971 - 1975 GMC Sprint 402/6.6 V8
    1974 - 1975 GMC Sprint 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet G30 Van 350/5.7 V8
    1969 - 1975 Chevrolet Nova 350/5.7 V8
    1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Nova 307/5 V8
    1969 - 1970 Chevrolet Nova 396/6.5 V8
    1967 - 1968 GMC C15/C1500 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1967 - 1968 GMC C25/C2500 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1975 Chevrolet Bel Air
    1975 Chevrolet K5 Blazer 400/6.6 V8
    1975 Chevrolet K5 Blazer 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet Caprice 327/5.4 V8
    1968 Chevrolet Caprice 307/5 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Caprice 427/7 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Caprice 396/6.5 V8
    1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
    1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1967 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1972 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1967 - 1968 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1968 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1973 - 1974 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1968 GMC K25/K2500 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
    1968 GMC K25/K2500 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC K25/K2500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1968 GMC K25/K2500 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1974 GMC K25/K2500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1968 GMC K35/K3500 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1973 - 1975 Chevrolet Malibu 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet Laguna 454/7.4 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet Laguna 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1975 Chevrolet Malibu 454/7.4 V8
    1974 Chevrolet Laguna 400/6.6 V8
    1974 - 1975 Chevrolet Malibu 400/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Malibu 327/5.3 V8
    1971 - 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 400/6.6 V8
    1971 - 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 350/5.7 V8
    1973 Chevrolet Malibu 307/5 V8
    1971 - 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 454/7.4 V8
    1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 402/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
    1970 Chevrolet Nova 402/6.6 V8
    1966 Chevrolet Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Caprice 327/5.3 V8
    1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Caprice 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet Caprice 454/7.4 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet Caprice 400/6.6 V8
    1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Caprice 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle 327/5.3 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle 283/4.6 V8
    1966 - 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle 396/6.5 V8
    1967 - 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle 307/5 V8
    1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle 454/7.4 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1968 Chevrolet Chevy II 327/5.4 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Chevy II 283/4.6 V8
    1966 - 1968 Chevrolet Chevy II 327/5.3 V8
    1968 Chevrolet Chevy II 396/6.5 V8
    1968 Chevrolet Chevy II 350/5.7 V8
    1968 Chevrolet Chevy II 307/5 V8
    1966 - 1971 Chevrolet Corvette
    1972 - 1975 Chevrolet Corvette 350/5.7 V8
    1972 - 1974 Chevrolet Corvette 454/7.4 V8
    1967 - 1975 Chevrolet Camaro 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet Caprice
    1970 - 1975 Chevrolet El Camino 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1975 Chevrolet El Camino 454/7.4 V8
    1969 - 1975 Chevrolet El Camino 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet G10 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet G20 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet G20 400/6.6 V8
    1975 Chevrolet G30 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet G30 400/6.6 V8
    1976 Chevrolet G30 454/7.4 V8
    1975 Chevrolet Impala
    1975 Chevrolet K10 400/6.6 V8
    1975 Chevrolet K10 350/5.7 V8
    1969 - 1975 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
    1975 Chevrolet K20 400/6.6 V8
    1975 Chevrolet K20 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
    1969 - 1975 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet Laguna
    1975 Chevrolet Monza 262/4.3 V8
    1975 Chevrolet Nova 262/4.3 V8
    1975 GMC C15 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC C15 454/7.4 V8
    1975 GMC C15 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC C15 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1975 GMC C25 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC C25 454/7.4 V8
    1975 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1975 GMC C25 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC C35 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC C35 454/7.4 V8
    1975 GMC G15 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC G25 400/6.6 V8
    1975 GMC G25 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC G25 454/7.4 V8
    1975 GMC G35 400/6.6 V8
    1975 GMC G35 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC Jimmy 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1975 GMC Jimmy 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC K15 400/6.6 V8
    1975 GMC K15 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC K15 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1978 GMC K15 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
    1975 GMC K25 350/5.7 V8
    1975 GMC K25 400/6.6 V8
    1975 GMC K25 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
    1975 GMC K25 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Bel Air 283/4.6 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Bel Air 396/6.5 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Bel Air 327/5.3 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Bel Air 427/7 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet Bel Air 327/5.4 V8
    1968 Chevrolet Bel Air 307/5 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet Bel Air 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet Bel Air 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet Bel Air 454/7.4 V8
    1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Bel Air 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 327/5.3 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 327/5.4 V8
    1968 Chevrolet Biscayne 307/5 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 396/6.5 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet K30 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet K30 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1973 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet K30 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet K30 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1971 Chevrolet K30 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet K30 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Kingswood 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Kingswood 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Kingswood 454/7.4 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino 327/5.3 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino 396/6.5 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet El Camino 283/4.6 V8
    1968 Chevrolet El Camino 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino 307/5 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet El Camino 402/6.6 V8
    1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Kingswood 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Malibu 283/4.6 V8
    1966 Chevrolet Malibu 396/6.5 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC C15/C1500 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC C15/C1500 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1970 - 1972 GMC C15/C1500 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC C15/C1500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1974 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1973 - 1974 GMC C15/C1500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1967 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1968 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1972 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1967 - 1968 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1973 - 1974 GMC C25/C2500 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1968 GMC C25/C2500 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC C25/C2500 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC C25/C2500 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
    1970 - 1972 GMC C25/C2500 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC C25/C2500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1974 GMC C25/C2500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1975 Chevrolet C10 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet C10 454/7.4 V8
    1973 - 1975 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1969 - 1975 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet C20 350/5.7 V8
    1975 Chevrolet C20 454/7.4 V8
    1969 - 1975 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1975 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
    1975 Chevrolet C30 454/7.4 V8
    1975 Chevrolet C30 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet G20 Van 454/7.4 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet G20 Van 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet G30 Van 454/7.4 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Impala 327/5.4 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Impala 283/4.6 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Impala 396/6.5 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Impala 327/5.3 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Impala 427/7 V8
    1968 Chevrolet Impala 307/5 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet Impala 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet Impala 454/7.4 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet Impala 350/5.7 V8
    1966 - 1968 Chevrolet K10 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1968 - 1970 Chevrolet K10 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet K10 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet K10 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet K10 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1968 Chevrolet K10 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1974 Chevrolet K10 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1968 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
    1968 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet K20 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1968 Chevrolet K20 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet K20 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet K20 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1966 - 1968 Chevrolet K20 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet K20 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet K20 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1968 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
    1968 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1968 Chevrolet K30 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1970 - 1972 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1971 - 1974 GMC G15/G1500 Van 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC G15/G1500 Van 307/5 V8
    1967 GMC G25/G2500 Van 327/5.4 V8
    1973 - 1974 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1967 GMC G25/G2500 Van 283/4.6 V8
    1970 - 1974 GMC G25/G2500 Van 350/5.7 V8
    1967 GMC G15/G1500 Van 283/4.6 V8
    1968 - 1973 GMC G25/G2500 Van 307/5 V8
    1971 - 1974 GMC G35/G3500 Van 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1972 GMC Jimmy 307/5 V8
    1973 GMC Jimmy 454/7.4 V8
    1967 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1967 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 305/5 V6
    1968 - 1971 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1967 - 1968 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1969 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1968 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1969 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 305/5 V6
    1970 - 1972 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
    1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
    1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1968 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1966 - 1968 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1968 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1967 - 1969 Chevrolet Camaro 327/5.3 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet Camaro 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet Camaro 396/6.5 V8
    1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro 307/5 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Camaro 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Caprice 283/4.6 V8
    1967 - 1968 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1968 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1967 GMC C35/C3500 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1967 GMC G15/G1500 Van 327/5.4 V8
    1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Impala 402/6.6 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet G10 Van 307/5 V8
    1970 - 1974 Chevrolet G10 Van 350/5.7 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet G10 Van 454/7.4 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet G20 Van 307/5 V8
    1967 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1970 - 1972 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1967 - 1968 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1968 GMC C15/C1500 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 GMC C15/C1500 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet Biscayne 283/4.6 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 427/7 V8
    1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 350/5.7 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 400/6.6 V8
    1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 454/7.4 V8
    1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 402/6.6 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet Blazer 350/5.7 V8
    1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Blazer 307/5 V8
    1973 Chevrolet Blazer 454/7.4 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Brookwood 400/6.6 V8
    1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Brookwood 350/5.7 V8
    1972 Chevrolet Brookwood 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1967 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
    1966 - 1969 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1968 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 307/5 V8
    1969 - 1974 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
    1973 - 1974 Chevrolet C10 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
    1968 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
    1968 - 1973 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 307/5 V8
    1968 - 1969 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
    1968 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
    1966 - 1968 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
    1968 Chevrolet C20 Pickup 327/5.4 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Townsman 400/6.6 V8
    1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Townsman 454/7.4 V8
    1972 Chevrolet Townsman 402/6.6 V8
    1966 Chevrolet Suburban 283/4.6 V8
    1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Townsman 350/5.7 V8

    Specs:

    Brand Mr. Gasket
    Emission Code 5
    Product Type Thermostat Housing
    Warning California Proposition 65
    Warranty Limited 90 Day
    Weight 0.94
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    Information is great, quality not so much
    Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
    Think the information is good and to the point. My book was misprinted and had the top portion of the page cut off so that I can see about only half of the book page number.
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    Draper, US
    ★★★★★ 5
    History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes
    Format: Hardcover
    They say that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Reading Rachel Maddow's Prequel, that old adage lands with uncomfortable, clarifying force. The America of the 1930s had Senator Huey Long — loud, brash, barnstorming, and brimming with populist promises — and the resonance with our own era of bombastic political theater is impossible to dismiss. Maddow doesn't make that parallel clumsily. She doesn't need to. The evidence, laid out with the precision of a seasoned researcher and historian, speaks for itself. Prequel tells the story of a far-right authoritarian impulse that has run through the veins of American political life for nearly a hundred years. In the 1930s, coinciding with Hitler's rise in Europe, a coordinated movement pushed hard for fascism here at home. Groups stockpiled weapons and explosives in preparation for an insurrection. Government officials worked in coordination with foreign actors. A fascist-sympathetic narrative was amplified through official and unofficial channels alike. This was not fringe paranoia — it was organized, resourced, and frighteningly close to succeeding. What is remarkable — and what gives this book its most urgent energy — is the story of who stopped it. Not always the institutions we might hope to rely on. Where the American legal system faltered, journalists and activists filled the breach. Investigators, reporters, and citizens took up the banner of democracy through dogged, unglamorous work. This is where Maddow's particular genius comes into its own. She is a master of the long connective thread — drawing bright lines between the events of the past and the present without letting the comparison become reductive or cheap. Prequel teaches us what was learned the last time democracy faced this kind of pressure: where the weaknesses are, what held, and — critically — what it will take to hold again. She identifies the strongholds. She maps the vulnerabilities. She makes a history lesson feel like a field guide. The book is also, simply, a pleasure to read. Maddow brings to the page the same qualities that made her a formidable broadcaster: the ability to take deeply complex, document-heavy material and render it not just comprehensible but genuinely gripping. Her research is formidable. Her journalistic integrity is evident on every page. And her storytelling instincts transform what might otherwise be a dry historical account into something that reads with the momentum of a thriller. The result is a text that is at once a celebration — democracy was fought for and, in that moment, successfully defended — and a warning. This book is well researched, well documented, and well written. Maddow is a master storyteller handing us a guide for the fight ahead of us. The impulse toward authoritarianism did not dissolve with the defeat of fascism abroad; it went quiet, regrouped, and waited. Democracy is once again under attack from the inside, and Prequel makes the case — calmly, rigorously, without hysteria — that this is not unprecedented, that it has been faced before, and that it can be faced again. Don't give up the fight. Don't let the bastards grind you down. (Upgraded from 4.5 stars)
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    ★★★★★ 5
    American history without the gold-plated bias
    Format: Hardcover
    Ms. Maddow is an amazing historian and journalist! She describes events in history in a rational, no-nonsense manner, with clarity and insight. We have been taught a white-washed version of history from 1st through 12th grade, and I literally mean white-washed. Humanity has always made mistakes and should be recorded in history. Ms. Maddow does an exceptional job of removing the "sugar-coating" from documented events and revealing the greed, corruption, and manipulation hiding beneath. I dearly hope that she will write a biography on this present president, which I believe would be as close to the truth as humanly possible. I will certainly buy a copy!
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    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2026
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    David C. Bright
    Louisville, US
    ★★★★★ 5
    A must-read - hair-raising, deeply alarming, and shudder-producing
    Format: Kindle
    What I liked: - Deeply researched - amazing depth, particularly of a wide range of characters (a few of whom are true heroes) and many more miscreants - Rachel must have had a spectacular research team to work with! She mentions that "there were millions of words written about the rise of (and fight against) fascism as it was happening in pre-World War II America" - but I bet that most Americans haven't been exposed to them. - Starts off mildly with George Sylvester Viereck (a ridiculous author, but just wait!) but then shifts gears progressively as the story builds and adds in a raft of odious characters - Not afraid to name names - some of the politicians ultimately come in for some serious whacking (see Sens. Wheeler and Langer especially). Also surprising were the back stories of names I recognize (architect Philip Johnson, for example) without knowing of their nazi sympathies and antisemitism. - Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh are waaay more complicated than our stereotypes of the heroic but opaque pilot and his saintly wife (she is one scary piece of work!) - stuff I simply didn't know, and what was presented was alarming to the extent of making skin crawl - I had never heard of the sedition trials of 1943 and 1944 and prosecutor John Rogge at all before - just one example of new (and stunning) information from our history - absolute bedlam! - As the history advances and the book nears its end, there are several BIG events that may push you back in your reading chair several times - again, no spoilers, but hoo-eee! - The epilogue was a treat to read - again, I won't reveal any spoilers A minor criticism - the book is derived (I believe) from Rachel's podcasts, and thus the writing has her inimitable voice (pointed asides, etc.), but as a result may lack some polish and smoothness in the prose. Some may love it, some may carp, some may not even notice it. Whatever. If material about this period is of interest to the reader, be certain to seek out "Hitler in Los Angeles" by Steven J. Ross - its focus is a little narrower, dealing with Jewish undercover work to foil Nazi plotting in Los Angeles, but Leon Lewis, a true mensch and hero, is in Maddow's book as well.
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    Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2024
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    David Simpson
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    ★★★★★ 4
    Fascinating details from the past but not really a “prequel”
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    Rachel Maddow’s “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism” recounts the efforts of pro-fascists in the United States, aided and manipulated by Nazi Germany, to keep America from actively opposing Hitler as well as to plot ways to turn America into a fascist country. The struggle to defeat those forces began in the early 1930s led by private citizens who, on their own, went undercover to join fascist groups and try to alert various government agencies about what was happening. A relatively small number of fascists gathered weapons to prepare for an insurrection. In the last chapters of the book, Maddow describes a 1944 trial in which the Justice Department brought sedition charges against some 30 defendants, most of whose activities she covered in previous chapters. The trial was chaotic, interrupted by frequent outbursts from the defendants and their lawyers. When the judge suddenly died one night of heart attack and a mistrial was declared, the Justice Department did not seek a new trial. The war against Hitler was nearing an end, so there was no push to revisit the past to pronounce judgment on those whose activities on the home front ultimately did not affect our victory over the Nazis. Since the ending is rather anticlimactic, Maddow, at times, may try a little too hard to make things sound more dire than they really were. Although elsewhere she has described Westbrook Pegler as an “extreme” right wing columnist and “pseudo-fascist,” she quotes him at the end of her chapter on Huey Long as averring that, in Louisiana, Long was “gradually copying the Hitler state.” Long was certainly a corrupt, authoritarian politician, but his populist politics had their origins in his upbringing in Winn Parish, where the Socialist Party carried the day in the 1912 election. Had he lived and had he run for president in 1936, he might have drawn enough votes from FDR to give the election to a Republican candidate, but he had no use for Nazism. (I live in Louisiana where, until 1973, we observed Huey’s birthday as a state holiday.) Maddow seems to imply that there was something nefarious about the death in 1940 of Senator Ernest Lundeen in a passenger airplane crash that occurred during a thunderstorm. Lundeen, who had close ties to a top Nazi spy, may have been under investigation, but nothing indicates that his presence on the flight had anything to do with the crash. The cause was never determined, but, based on the way the plane headed forcibly into the ground, a likely explanation is that it was caught in the kind of thunderstorm microbursts that we now know has caused similar crashes. Though, for me, the book seems to promise a bit more than it actually delivers, I did learn a lot about the ties of right wing politics to Nazism during that era. I was aware that Henry Ford was a fanatical antisemite, but, until I read Maddow’s book, I did not know that his efforts extended to publishing a ninety-two part series based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that appeared in the Dearborn Independent, a newspaper that he owned, with copies distributed to every Ford dealership. It was published in book form as “The International Jew” and widely circulated in Germany. Hitler praised Ford in “Mein Kampf” and, according to one account, had a portrait of Ford displayed on the wall in his office when he was visited by an American reporter. I was aware that the Nazis studied segregation in the American South for guidance in drafting their own race laws, but I didn’t know that Nazi Germany dispatched an attorney to the University of Arkansas School of Law to acquire first-hand knowledge. I was aware that Father Coughlin was a demagogic opponent of FDR, but I was not aware of the ferocity of his antisemitism or his ties to various pro-Nazi fascists. However, I was really totally unaware of the way actual Nazi agents in league with pro-Nazi Americans were able to get congressmen and senators to distribute Nazi propaganda, typically inserted into the Congressional Record and then sent to millions of Americans for free using the congressional franking privilege. On the other hand, I doubt that propaganda delivered in that manner was very effective. Pages from the Congressional Record could not compete with the message delivered by the 1939 Warner Brothers film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” the first anti-Nazi movie produced by Hollywood, based on actual events that Maddow describes. Nothing pro-fascists did in the United States affected our entry into the war against Germany. We went to war when Hitler himself declared war on us four days after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Nazi Germany certainly posed a military threat, but there wasn’t much danger that fascist politics would actually prevail in the United States. The political situation is very different today and, though I, like Maddow, admire the “smart, brave, determined, resourceful, self-sacrificing [anti-fascist] Americans who went before us,” I think the political challenges we face today are much more dire.
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    Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2023

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