Dictators, democracy, and American public culture envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / [electronic resource] :
Benjamin L. Alpers.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- x, 405 p.
- Cultural studies of the United States .
- 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.
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Dictatorship. Democracy. Mass media--Influence.--United States Public opinion--United States.