Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950sFocusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the la |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
THE ROMANCE OF A DICTATOR DICTATORSHIP IN AMERICAN PUBLIC CULTURE 1920S1935 | 15 |
THE TOTALITARIAN STATE MODERN DICTATORSHIP AS A NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT 1920S1935 | 59 |
THE DISAPPEARING DICTATOR DECLINING REGARD FOR DICTATORS AMID GROWING FEARS OF DICTATORSHIP 19361941 | 77 |
THE AUDIENCE ITSELF IS THE DRAMA DICTATORSHIP AND THE REGIMENTED CROWD 19361941 | 94 |
DICTATOR ISMS AND OUR DEMOCRACY THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM 19361941 | 129 |
THIS IS THE ARMY THE PROBLEM OF THE MILITARY IN A DEMOCRACY 19411945 | 157 |
HERE IS GERMANY UNDERSTANDING THE NAZI ENEMY 19411945 | 188 |
THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE COMMUNISM AND TOTALITARIANISM 19411945 | 220 |
A BOOT STAMPING ON A HUMAN FACEFOREVER TOTALITARIANISM AS NIGHTMARE IN POSTWAR AMERICA | 250 |
NOTES | 303 |
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