Hey everyone! With fascism on the rise around the world (and in my opinion, in my home country of America) what are some great books about the rise of fascism? I've read The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard Evans and loved it, but any other recommendations would be very much appreciated! Thank you all!
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On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
How Facism Works : Jason Stanley
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt-The Origins of Totalitarianism
I just started How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa. It’s part memoir (she has lived an extraordinary life), but it’s also about how social media and online misinformation network can bring down a democracy. I really like it so far
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
It tells the story of the US ambassador to Germany when Hitler assumes power.
Late Fascism – Alberto Toscano
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Jason Stanley
The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton
The Rise of Fascism, by F L Carsten . Published in the late 60s, so it might be hard to find but probably the best overview.
Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy;
AJP Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War
I’m reading “erasing history: how fascists rewrite the past to control the future” by Jason Stanley right now and I am loving it. Next on my list is “the origins of totalitarianism” by Hannah Arendt.
Escape from Freedom–Erich Fromm
They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer. It’s about the thought process of ordinary German citizens during the rise of the Third Reich. Absolutely a must-read if you’ve ever asked the question “how can people just let this happen?”
Twilight of Democracy- Anne Applebaum
Strongmen – Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Fascism: A Warning – Madeleine Albright
How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them – Barbara F Walter
Maria Ressa’s book mentioned above
The Monarchy of Fear – Martha Nussbaum
Meme Wars – Joan Donovan et al
How Fascism Works – Jason Stanley
How Democracies Die – Levitzky and Ziblatt
American Fascists – Chris Hedges
Novels about U turn from Democracy to Dictatorship:
“Prophet Song” by David Lynch.
It is a hard book, as hard as the “Blindness” by Jose Saramago