Did It Happen Here? - Perspectives on Fascism and America

Since the 2016 US presidential election, politicians, historians, intellectuals and media pundits have debated a startling question: Is fascism happening in America? Some argue that fascism has arrived and, to grasp the challenge it poses, we must gain insight from Europe's past, lest American democracy succumb. But others question whether this Eurocentric notion truly reflects America's political moment, or exemplifies a provincial American perspective on a much more complex global landscape. To illuminate the issues, this anthology offers key texts from the sharpest minds commenting on politics and history, past and present. Jumping off from classic pieces by Hannah Arendt, Angela Davis, Upton Sinclair, Reinhold Niebuhr, Leon Trotsky and others, Did It Happen Here? brings together the most insightful contributors to the contemporary discussion, from Samuel Moyn to Robin DG Kelley to Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Pankaj Mishra. The result is the go-to resource for every politically attuned reader worried about fascism and the politics of fear today.

About the author

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is an assistant professor of history and social theory in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and runs a regular interview series at the Nation. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Product details

• Assisted by: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781324110590
• ISBN: 978-1-324-11059-0
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 309 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Politics & government, social and political philosophy, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political science and theory, Civics and citizenship