Haunted by Hitler : liberals, the left, and the fight against fascism in the United States / Christopher Vials.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vials, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism--United States--History--20th century.

Fascism.

National socialism.

History.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States.

Politics and government.

Political science.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]

Summary:

The threat of fascism in the United States haunted the imaginations of activists, writers, and artists, spurring them to create a rich, elaborate body of cultural and political work. Christopher Vials examines the ways in which anxieties about fascism in the United States have been expressed in the public sphere, through American television shows, Off-Broadway theater, party newspapers, bestselling works of history, journalism, popular sociology, political theory, and other media. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: antifascism and the United States

European precedents, American echoes: fascism in history and memory

From margin to mainstream: American antifascism to 1945

Beyond economics, without guarantees: faschismustheorie in the United States

Resuming the people's war: HUAC, Joe McCarthy, and the antifascist challenge of the 1950s

Brownshirts in the twilight zone: antifascism in the liberal moment of the early 1960s

United front against genocide: African American antifascism, the Black Panthers, and the

Multiracial coalitions of the late 1960s

Queer antifascism: pink triangle politics and the Christian right

Epilogue: antifascism in strip mall America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625341303

162534130X

9781625341297

1625341296

OCLC:

880860358