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Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida
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Note: There is a fairly large bibliography related to fascism in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. I have included a few items here to show that we were warned about fascism by numerous authors but we did not pay enough attention to the potential consequences.
Adler, L. K. and T. G. Paterson,. 1970. Red Fascism: The merger of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in the American image of totalitarianism, 1930's-1950s. American Historical Review (75): 1046-1064.
Albright, M. 2018. Fascism: A Warning. HarperCollins.
Alexander, M. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
Allardyce, G. 1979. What fascism is not: On the deflation of a concept. The American Historical Review (84.2): 367-388.
Applebaum, A. 2021. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Vintage.
Applebaum, A. 2024. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. Doubleday.
Bell, D. ed. 2002. The Radical Right, 3rd edition. Transaction Publishers.
Ben-Ghiat, R. 2016. An American authoritarian. The Atlantic (August 10).
Ben-Ghiat, R. 2020. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. W. W. Norton & Company. (Clear lessons about how these regimes are built and how they must be opposed).
Ben-Ghiat R. 2023. Epilogue in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. (Summary).
Berger, J. M. 2016. How white nationalists learned to love Donald Trump. Politico (October 26).
Bouie, J. 2015. Donald Trump is a fascist. Slate (November 25).
Burley, S. 2017. Fascism Today: What it is and How to End it. AK Press.
Campbell, A. B. 2022. We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism. Hachette Books.
Churchwell, S. 2018. Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" And "The American Dream." Basic Books.
Churchwell, S. 2020. American fascism: It has happened here. (June 23). New York Review.
Churchwell, S. 2020. The return of American fascism. New Statesman (September 2).
Duensing, A. F. 2023. "A Heritage of Fascists without Labels:" Black Antifascism and the Productive Politics of Analogy in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press.
Eisenberg, D. 1967. The Re-emergence of Fascism. A. S. Barnes.
Eley, G. 2023. Liberalism in Crisis: What is Fascism and Where Does it Come from? in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. (Summary).
Elsbree, W. H. 1970. Japan's Role in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements, 1940 to 1945. Russell & Russell.
Fea, J., L. Gifford, R. M. Griffith and L. A. Martin. 2019. Evangelicalism and politics. American Historian (December 19).
Finchelstein, F. 2020. A Brief History of Fascist Lies. Universiity of California Press.
Fronczak, J. 2018. The fascist game: Transnational political transmission and the Genesis of the U.S. modern right. Journal of American History (105.3): 563-588.
Gessen, M. 2020. Surviving Autocracy. Riverhead Books.
Gordon, L. 2023. The American Fascists in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. (Summary).
Gordon, L. 2025. Seven Social Movements That Changed America. Liveright.
Griffin, R. 2018. Fascism: Key Concepts in Political Theory. Polity.
Gurlev, S. and D. Treisman. 2022. Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. Princeton University Press.
Hacker, J. S. and P. Pierson, 2020. Let Them East Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality. Liveright Publishing.
Hamid, S. 2020. Americans are losing sight of what fascism means. The Atlantic. (October 25).
Hart, B. W. 2023. Hitler at the Ballot Box? Support for Fascism among American Elected Officials in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press.
Hawley, G. 2019. The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press. (A white nationalist movement that became a major news story after its march in Charlottesville in 2017).
Jackson, S. 2020. Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group. Columbia University Press.
Kagan, R. 2016. This is how fascism comes to America. Washington Post (May 18).
Lawtoo, N. 2019. (New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth. Michigan State University Press.
Leffler, M. P. and W. Hitchcock, eds. 2018. America First: The past and future of an idea. (September) Passport.
Levitsky, S. and D. Ziblatt. 2018. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals about Our Future. Viking.
Levitsiy, S. and D. Ziblatt. 2019. How Democracies Die. Crown; Reprint edition.
Lewis, M. 2018. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy. W. W. Norton & Company.
Marcotte, A. 2022. Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right. Salon (April 8).
McVeigh, R. and K. Estep. 2019. The Ku Klux Klan in American history, in Estep and McVeigh, The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan and the Mainstreaming of Resentment. Columbia University Press: 19-54.
Miller-Idriss, C. 2020. Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. Princeton University Press.
Miller-Idriss, C. 2023. Formulting Policy Responses to the Right-Wing Threat in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. (Summary).
O'Toole, F. 2020. Democracy's afterlife: Trump, the GOP, and the rise of zombie politics. New York Review (December 3).
Paxton, R. O. 1998. The five stages of fascism. The Journal of Modern History 70.1 (March): 1-23.
Paxton, R. O. 2005. The Anatomy of Fascism. Vintage; Reprint edition.
Paxton, R. O. 2021. I've hesitated to call Donald Trump a fascist, until now. Newsweek (January 11).
Payne, S. G. 1980. Fascism: Comparison and Definition. University of Wisconsin Press.
Peet, B. 2017. A Question of Order. The Return of the Global Strongman. Columbia Global Reports.
Pinto, A. C. ed. 2010. Rethinking the Nature of Fascism: Comparative Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.
Pollitt, K. 2017. It's not hysterical to recognize the threat Trump poses. The Nation (August 17).
Poulantzas, N. 1979. Fascism and Dictatorship. New Left Books.
Power-Greene, O. K. 2023. "No Trump, No KKK, No fascist USA:" African American activists fight fascism, 1960-1980s in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press.
Reich, R. 2016. The many ways Trump is a fascist. Chicago Sun Times (March 19).
Riley, D. 2019. The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain, and Romania 1870-1945, 2nd edition. Verso.
Rosenfeld, G. D. 2019. The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Natizm from World War II to the Present. Cambridge University Press.
Rosenfeld, G. D. 2023. Fascism in American Culture: How Alternative a History? in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press.
Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present: Introduction and Contents. Cambridge University Press. (Summary).
Ross, A. R. 2023. Vigilantism and Fascism in the Pacific Northwest: An Insurgent Tradition Renewed in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press.
Shaw, C. ed. 2017. Fascism rising. Speical issue of World Policy Journal (34.1).
Sides, J., M. Tesler and L. Vavreck. 2018. The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press.
Specter, M. and V. Venkatasubramanian. 2023. "America First": Nationalism, Nativism, and the Fascism Question 1880-2020 in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. (Note).
Stanley, J. 2018. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Random House. (Summary).
Steigmann-Gall, R. 2023. Fascism and Antisemitism in 1930s America: The Genocidal Vision of the Silver Shirts in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press.
Stone, M. 2023. Concentration Camps in Trump's America? in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. (Summary).
Tanin, O. and E. Yohan. 1974. Militarism and Fascism in Japan. Praeger.
Tansman, A. 2009. The Culture of Japanese Fascism (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society). Duke University Press Books.
Thomas, J. A. and G. Eley, eds. 2020. Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. Duke University Press.
Thompson, D. 2021. Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and Its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States. Hassell Street Press. (Originally published in 1938).
Traverso, E. 2017. The New Faces of Fascism. Verso.
Traverso, E. 2019. The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right. Verso; Translation edition.
Weber, T. 2023. Anarchy and the State of Nature in Donald Trump's America and Adolf Hitler's Germany in Rosenfeld, G. D. (Editor) and J. Ward (Editor). 2023. Fascism in America: Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. (Summary).
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