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This book traces how American public culture—from films, newspapers, magazines, to speeches and literature—shaped and was shaped by ideas of dictatorship and totalitarianism between the 1920s and the early Cold War. The author analyses shifting perceptions: from early fascination with the dictatorial “strongman,” to widespread rejection of dictatorship and embrace of democracy in the late 1930s and beyond. Through case studies of reactions to regimes such as Mussolini’s Italy, Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Russia, the book shows how these cultural representations helped define American political identity and the notion of “the totalitarian enemy.” turn0search

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250: $b: The University of North Carolina Press
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