{"product_id":"coming-of-the-american-behemoth-the-origins-of-fascism-in-the-united-states-1920-1940","title":"Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eDuring the 1920s and 1930s, the United States was the birthplace of fascism, as argued by Michael Joseph Roberto in his book \"The Coming of the American Behemoth.\" He contends that Big Business and finance capital were the driving forces behind fascism in the US, and that it took a racist, top-down approach to quashing individual liberties, masquerading as \"real democracy\" and \"upholding the Constitution.\" The book is a primer on the nature of fascism and its particular forms within the US, and is a necessity for anyone who fears America tipping ever closer to full-blown fascism. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\n                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\\n                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e\\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 30 October 2018\u003cbr\u003e\\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Monthly Review Press,U.S.\u003cbr\u003e\\n                          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the United States, most people have been taught to identify fascism in movements like Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate enraged, vengeful masses. We rarely consider fascism as related to the essence of monopoly-finance capitalism, operating under the guise of American free enterprise. However, as Michael Joseph Roberto argues, this is precisely where fascism's embryonic forms began gestating in the United States, during the so-called prosperous 1920s and the Great Depression of the following decade. Drawing from a range of authors who wrote during the 1930s and early 1940s, Roberto examines how the driving force of American fascism comes not from reactionary movements below but from the top, namely, Big Business and the power of finance capital. More subtle than its earlier European counterparts, writes Roberto, fascist America's racist, top-down quashing of individual liberties masqueraded as \"real democracy,\" \"upholding the Constitution,\" and the pressure to be \"100 Percent American.\" The Coming of the American Behemoth is intended as a primer to forge much-needed discourse on the nature of fascism and its particular forms within the United States. The book focuses on the role of the capital-labor relationship during the period between the two World Wars, when the United States became the epicenter of the world-capitalist system. Concentrating on specific processes, which he characterizes as terrorist and non-terrorist alike, Roberto argues that the interwar period was a fertile time for the incubation of a protean form of tyranny – a fascist behemoth in the making, whose emergence has been ignored or dismissed by mainstream historians. This book is a necessity for anyone who fears America tipping ever closer, in this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 528g\\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 139 x 209 x 34 (mm)\\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781583677315\\n                            \\n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Joseph Roberto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44095321211130,"sku":"9781583677315","price":14.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/cd5f0259dde93d12c629cafce963a84d.jpg?v=1625711910","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/coming-of-the-american-behemoth-the-origins-of-fascism-in-the-united-states-1920-1940","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}