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America last : the right's century-long romance with foreign dictators

Heilbrunn, Jacob, author

Overview

Why is today's Republican Party, which claims to be the defender of American values, so drawn to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the brazenly illiberal Victor Orban, who has crushed an independent judiciary and political dissent in Hungary? As Heilbrunn shows, the affection conservatives display for foreign autocrats, though a striking and seemingly inexplicable fact of our current moment, dates to the First World War. Since that time, leading intellectuals, journalists and politicians on the right have always been drawn to what they perceive as the impressive strength of authoritarians abroad who offered models of how to fight back against liberalism and progressivism domestically. In this account, Heilbrunn argues that dictator worship is a longstanding romantic impulse that fits firmly within the modern American political tradition - and shows what it means for us today.

• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
• Subject: Dictators United States Public opinion. / Conservatives United States Attitudes. / United States Politics and government. / United States Foreign relations.
• ISBN: 9781324094661

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JC573.2.U6 H45 2024	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE