Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965-
Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / Benjamin L. Alpers. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - x, 405 p. : 25 cm. - Cultural studies of the United States .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-379) and index.
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.
0807827509 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854166 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Public opinion--United States.
Mass media--Influence.--United States
Democracy.
Dictatorship.
JC495 / .A46 2003
321.9
Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / Benjamin L. Alpers. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - x, 405 p. : 25 cm. - Cultural studies of the United States .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-379) and index.
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.
0807827509 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807854166 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Public opinion--United States.
Mass media--Influence.--United States
Democracy.
Dictatorship.
JC495 / .A46 2003
321.9