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The Coming of the American Behemoth, 9781583677315
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Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany’s Third Reich or Italy’s National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses.

The Coming of the American Behemoth

the origins of fascism in the united states, 1920 -1940

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    384 pages

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    29 October 2018

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Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany’s Third Reich or Italy’s National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses.We rarely think of fascism as linked to the essence of monopoly-finance capitalism, operating under the guise of American free-enterprise.But, as Michael Joseph Roberto argues, this is exactly where fascism’s embryonic forms began gestating in the United States, during the so-call…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781583677315
ISBN-10:1583677313
Author:Michael Joseph Roberto
Publisher:Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Imprint:Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:29 October 2018
Weight:524g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm
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Michael Joseph Roberto

Michael Joseph Roberto retired in 2016 from the faculty of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the largest historically black educational institution in the United States, where he taught contemporary world history. A longtime political activist in Greensboro, NC, he has worked as a journalist and published essays in Monthly Review, Socialism and Democracy, and other scholarly journals. Roberto is also a percussionist who has performed with leading jazz and R&B musicians.

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