Cross Cultural Solidarity

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American Fascism

Image: A crowd of 22,000 celebrates the rise of Nazism at a rally in Madison Square Garden, 1939. See also the resource page on American Connections to Nazi Germany.

Books

Scott Beekman: William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult.

Russ Bellant: Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic fascist networks and their effect on U.S. cold war politics.

Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons: Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort.      

Arnie Bernstein: Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund.

Alan Brinkley: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression.    

Sarah Churchwell: Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream.

Charles Gallagher: Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front.

Bradley W. Hart: Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States.

Matthew N. Lyons: Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire.           

Kathryn S. Olmsted: The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler.

Steven J. Ross: Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America.

Leo P. Ribuffo: The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War.

Evelyn A. Schlatter: Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000.

William H. Schmaltz: Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.         

Jason Stanley: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.

Victoria Saker Woeste: Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech.

Articles

Joe Allen: When Fascism Was American: Before Donald Trump, there was Father Charles Coughlin, who popularized fascism for Americans in the 1930s.

Russ Bellant (interview): Seven Decades of Nazi Collaboration: America’s Dirty Little Ukraine Secret.

Chip Berlet: Right Woos Left: Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected.

Code Switch Podcast: When Nazis Took Manhattan.         

Matthew N. Lyons: huge amount of articles on his website.

Joshua D. Rothman: It Could Happen Here.

Jason Stanley: many articles on his website.

Richard Steigmann-Gall: Star-spangled fascism: American interwar political extremism in comparative perspective.

Linton Weeks: Nazi Summer Camps In 1930s America?    

Matthew Wills: Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism: Henry Ford’s newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, published years of anti-Semitic articles, prompting Hitler to call him the “single great man.”