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McGowan, David : UNDERSTANDING THE F-WORD: AMERICAN FASCISM AND THE POLITICS OF ILLUSION

Writers Club Press, 2001

ISBN 9780595186402

By offering a radical review of the last one hundred years of US history, t his work is intended as a counterpoint to the rampant revisionism of the fl urry of books glorifying the "American Century". Beginning with the rather bold and decidedly controversial assertion that the current political syste m in place in the United States at the dawn of the twenty- first century is fascism, the first part of this book attempts to justify that claim by firs t defining exactly what fascism is - correcting various widely-held misconc eptions - and then analyzing how closely we as a nation conform to that def inition. Also included is a review of some of the hidden history and key ev ents of World War II. Part II offers a retrospective of the twentieth century American presidential administrations, to demonstrate that the steady and inexorable march towards overt fascism was a defining characteristic that remained unchanged. The final section looks at the still very much alive eugenics movement, and analyzes the role played by the psychiatric establishment in validating the fascist state. This book will surely find no shortage of detractors, but if read with an open mind, it just may change the way you view the world., As New

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