Machine Has a Soul (eBook)

American Sympathy with Italian Fascism

Katy Hull (Autor)

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2021
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20812-1 (ISBN)

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A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of democracy. These issues prompted a profound ambivalence toward modernity, leading some individuals to turn to Italian fascism as a possible solution for the problems facing the country. The Machine Has a Soul delves into why Americans of all stripes sympathized with Italian fascism, and shows that fascism's appeal rested in the image of Mussolini's regime as "e;the machine which will run and has a soul"e;-a seemingly efficient and technologically advanced system that upheld tradition, religion, and family.Katy Hull focuses on four prominent American sympathizers: Richard Washburn Child, a conservative diplomat and Republican operative; Anne O'Hare McCormick, a distinguished New York Times journalist; Generoso Pope, an Italian-American publisher and Democratic political broker; and Herbert Wallace Schneider, a Columbia University professor of moral philosophy. In fascism's violent squads they saw youthful glamour and impeccable manners, in the megalomaniacal Mussolini they perceived someone both current and old-fashioned, and in the corporate state they witnessed a politics that could revive addled minds. They argued that with the right course of action, the United States could use fascism to take the best from modernity while withstanding its harmful effects.Investigating the motivations of American fascist sympathizers, The Machine Has a Soul offers provocative lessons about authoritarianism's appeal during times of intense cultural, social, and economic strain.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • Adviser • Alessandro Pavolini • americans • Anne O'Hare McCormick • Antisemitism (authors) • Appeasement • Archive • authoritarianism • Autobiography • Axis powers • Balbo (aircraft formation) • Balilla • Benito Mussolini • bolsheviks • Calvin Coolidge • Civilization • Columbia University • comrade • Contemporary Society • Copyright • corporate state • Corporatism • courtesy • Criticism • czechoslovakia • de facto • Democracy • Dictatorship • Disgust • Duce • editorial • Emilio Gentile • Employment • Ethiopia • Fascist League of North America • fascist militarism • Fascist Modernities • fascist squadrism • fascist state • Fascist youth programs • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Gaetano Salvemini • Galeazzo Ciano • Generoso Pope • giovinezza • Government • Great Depression • Headline • Herbert Hoover • Herbert Schneider • historian • Horatio Alger • il duce • Illustration • Il Progresso Italo-Americano • Individualism • Institution • invasion of Ethiopia • Italian Americans • Italian Fascism • Italian Jews • Italians • Italo Balbo • Italy • Jews • John Dewey • John Diggins • Jonah Goldberg • Journalism • Land reclamation • Legislation • Liberal Fascism • Liberalism • lobbying • machine age • Mass production • Materialism • Ministry of Popular Culture • modernism • Modernism and Fascism • Modernity • Moral Philosophy • Mussolini • Mussolini and Fascism • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • newspaper • New York Times • Nihilism • Patriotism • pessimism • Philosopher • Political Party • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Princeton University Press • Propaganda • Public sphere • pundit • Rexford Tugwell • rhetoric • Richard Washburn Child • Roger Griffin • Ruth Ben-Ghiat • Second Italo-Ethiopian War • squadrism • squadrist violence • sympathizers • Tax • Technology • The New York Times • Theodore Roosevelt • The Saturday Evening Post • Totalitarianism • transnational • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Via Veneto • Victorian ideals • Walter Lippmann • war effort • War Industries Board • William Randolph Hearst • World History • World War I • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20812-3 / 0691208123
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20812-1 / 9780691208121