“By focusing on the rhetorical practices of fascism, the authors in this volume are able to reconcile different understandings and theories of what fascism is and how it works. Authors treat fascism as a rhetorical tradition, as a political practice, and as a method of action. They analyze its antecedents as well as its consequences, its historical and its contemporary manifestations, and its recurrence in regimes across the globe. In doing so, the volume marks fascism as a set of phenomena that are international, rather than merely Western; as human, rather than monstrous; and as mundane, rather than exceptional. This is a must-read for rhetoricians, historians, political scientists, and citizens hoping to understand fascism.”—Mary E. Stuckey, author of Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument“This collection provides a nuanced and complex understanding of fascist rhetoric and its associated devices, thus deconstructing the buzzword into recognizable features.“—Constellations

Nathan Crick is professor of communication at Texas A&M University. He is author of Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming, Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece, The Keys of Power: The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism, and Dewey for a New Age of Fascism: Teaching Democratic Habits.