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Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / Benjamin L. Alpers.
| Author/creator | Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003. |
| Description | x, 405 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cultural studies of the United States Cultural studies of the United States. ^A241520 |
| Contents | The romance of a dictator : dictatorship in American public culture, 1920s-1935 -- The totalitarian state : modern dictatorship as a new form of government, 1920s-1935 -- The disappearing dictator : declining regard for dictators amid growing fears of dictatorship, 1936-1941 -- The audience itself is the drama : dictatorship and the regimented crowd, 1936-1941 -- Dictator isms and our democracy : the rise of totalitarianism, 1936-1941 -- This is the army : the problem of the military in a democracy, 1941-1945 -- Here is Germany : understanding the Nazi enemy, 1941-1945 -- The battle of Russia : the Russian people, communism, and totalitarianism, 1941-1945 -- A boot stamping on a human face--forever : totalitarianism as nightmare in postwar America. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-379) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002009193 |
| ISBN | 0807827509 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807854166 (pbk. : alk. paper) |