Machine Has a Soul American Sympathy With Italian Fascism

About the author

Katy Hull is lecturer in American studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Summary

A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of democracy. These issues prompted a profound ambivalen

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"Katy Hull’s excellent book about American sympathy for Italian fascism arrives with an uncanny sense of timing. . . . [Her] work poignantly reminds us that fascist apologists have long flourished in the United States, and they still do."---William I. Hitchcock, Diplomatic History

Product details

• Authors: Katy Hull, Hull Katy
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.01.2021
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780691208107
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20810-7
• Pages: 272
• Series: America in the World
• Subjects: Illustration, Institution, Propaganda, Archive, Politics, European History, Adolf Hitler, Democracy, Political Science, Editorial, Historian, Theodore Roosevelt, Writing, unemployment, Copyright, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Autobiography, Italy, world history, Duce, Journalism, Employment, Benito Mussolini, John Dewey, Balilla, Criticism, Totalitarianism, Disgust, Modernity, Patriotism, Headline, Political party, Government, The New York Times, Rhetoric, Jews, Appeasement, Walter Lippmann, Legislation, United States of America, USA, Authoritarianism, Nazi Party, Dictatorship, History of the Americas, Newspaper, corporatism, Civilization, 1918–1943 (Italian post-war and Fascist period), Czechoslovakia, Uncertainty, World War I, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Herbert Hoover, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Italian fascism, Italians, Pessimism, Americans, Contemporary Society, Philosopher, 1943–1945 (period of Resistance and liberation from Fascism in Italy), Princeton University Press, courtesy, War effort, italo balbo, Axis powers, Machine Age, Horatio Alger, italian americans, Ministry of Popular Culture, Richard Washburn Child, Generoso Pope, Balbo (aircraft formation), Il Progresso Italo-Americano, Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Galeazzo Ciano, Anne O'Hare McCormick