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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces...
Trade ReviewPaul Gottfried's is far and away the best book on fascism I've read in many years.
* Claremont Review of Books *
Gottfried's study is particular, nuanced, and multifaceted... a model for the type of work that can earn the right a hearing from more attentive audiences.
* The American Conservative *
For historians, [Fascism] offers clear and provocative insights and arguments, and the very detailed notes are especially helpful.... Recommended.
* Choice *
Books warning of 'the new fascism' have become a cottage industry among academics. But at least one author, Dr. Paul E. Gottfried, professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and editor of Chronicles magazine, takes a more historically informed view.
* Quillette *
Gottfried's Fascism: The Career of a Concept is so valuable as a provocation, for it was written to correct the sloppy use of the epithet 'fascist' to condemn whatever politician or movement one finds distasteful.
* Rhetoric Society Quarterly *
In these studies, Gottfried notes how, partly because of how varied fascist administrations were, the elements which can be described as characteristic of fascism are actually very few.
* Human Events *
