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Philip Jenkins, Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 343 pp. $29.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2001

Abby Scher
Abby Scher
Affiliation:
Dollars and Sense
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Abstract

What is fascism? Was there ever a fascist movement in the United States? Philip Jenkins chooses to sidestep the more theoretical debate about the nature of fascism in order to employ a definition that uses a cluster of characteristics: right-wing authoritarianism, antidemocratic sentiment, the exaltation of military and paramilitary tactics, a sort of anticapitalism, a hostility to unions, and pursuit of the integration of social groups through a single party, a totalitarian central state, and corporatist economic structure.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 56 , October 1999 , pp. 170 - 172
Copyright
© 1999 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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