Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965-

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.


Electronic books.

JC495 / .A46 2003eb

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