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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
Gotz Aly

Metropolitan Books, 2007

Hitler's Satisfied Thieves: Actually, the Case for Nazi German Larceny-and-Genocide Policies can be Made Stronger

+ The Political Economy of Hitler (and Stalin)
+ Hitler's Beneficiaries
+ A Different Perspective on Nazi Germany
+ Interesting premise
  
  











  



  
Germany Tried Democracy: A Political History of the Reich from 1918 to 1933
S. William Halperin

W. W. Norton & Company, 1965

A lesson from history

"Germany Tried Democracy: A History of the Reich from 1918 to 1933", although first published in 1946, remains one of the best accounts of how the Nazi's used democratic institutions to subvert democracy. A lesson from history that deserves the attention of a new generation.
  
  











  



  
The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century
A. James Gregor

Yale University Press, 2000

Deeply Insightful

+ Exactly what the radical left needs to hear....
+ A Great Book by a Great Author

This book is an absolute must-have for any serious student of totalitarianism in the 20th century. Gregor has put together a very well-researched and cogent account of the singular nature of Bolshevism and Fascism, and explores convincingly the link each has to popular revolution in the face of ...
  
  











  



  
Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France
Zeev Sternhell

Princeton University Press, 1995

France, the initial incubator of fascist theory!

Sternhell who is professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers an objective inquiry into proto-fascist and fascist ideology in France. This book looks at the intellectual side of fascism as a political phenomenon before the pragmatists like Charles de Gaulle and ...
  
  











  



  
The Social Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile
H. S. Harris

University of Illinois Press, 1966

Harris omits some logical conclusions, but puts all the pieces before you

I've been reading over H. S. Harris' "The social philosophy of Giovanni Gentile" again recently, and being impressed both by Gentile's extremely progressive dialectical view of government, and also with Harris' inability to see the reliance Gentile put into the unification of opposites in ...
  
  











  



  
Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in the Twentieth Century (Anvil Series)
Eugen Weber

R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1982

Fascism as a Reaction to Economic Collapse, Political Ineptness, World War I, and Fears of Big Comunism

+ Probably the best introduction to fascism

Four unintended results of World War I were the Great Depression, the rise of Big Communism, obviously World War II, and the rise of Fascism. Some historians argue that the rise of Big Fascism may have been the result of the the other unintended consequences. John Maynard Keynes served clear ...
  
  











  



  
Hitler and the Germans (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin)
Eric Voegelin, Brendan Purcell

University of Missouri Press, 2003

Highly recommended for students of German National Socialism

Deftly edited by Detlev Clemsn (Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) and Brendan Purcell (Lecturer in Philosophy, University College, Dublin, Ireland), Hitler And The Germans is a selection of lectures by the late Eric ...
  
  











  



  
Fascism and Communism (European Horizons)
Francois Furet, Ernst Nolte

University of Nebraska Press, 2001

A Great Small Book

+ Short but thought-provoking discussion

This book is made up of correspondence between the French historian Francois Furet (best known for "The Passing of an Illusion") and German historian Ernst Nolte (best known for "Three Faces of Fascism" and more controversial later writings such as "The European Civil War"). The correspondence ...
  
  











  



  
Three Faces of Fascism: Action Francaise, Italian Fascism, National Socialism
Ernst, Nolte

Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1966

A Complex View of Fascism That Gives the Readers Reason to Think

+ Fascism as a Reaction to, and Mirror Image of, Communism

Ernst Nolte's THE THREE FACES OF FASCISM is a serious study of Fascism that avoids the popular but inaccurate view that Fascism is a political disapproval word. Nolte attempts to describe a philosophical view of Fascism and partially comes to grips with this much misunderstood view of Fascism. ...
  
  











  



  
Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939
Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Metropolitan Books, 2006

Honest, Insightful and Thought Provoking

+ A truly brilliant book!

Mr. Schivelbusch, in this remarkably well researched and startling book draws parallels between the programs and leadership styles of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Franklin Roosevelt. He shows how many similarities there were to be found between each of these very different men. His purpose is ...
  
  











  



  
The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933
William Brustein

Yale University Press, 1998

How Average Germans Voted for a Madman

William Brustein's work raises fascinating concepts which deserve serious consideration. One of these, often ignored or overlooked by many historians, is the possibility that average Germans did not see the Nazis as the 'radical right.' Instead, Burstein's contention is that the Nazi leadership ...
  
  











  



  
The Ominous Parallels
Leonard Peikoff

Plume, 1983

We must understand how and why the Nazis grew to prevent future generations from making similar mistakes

+ Bad Ideas have Bad Consequences
+ Neo Nazism in America
+ Expose of the Philosophy Behind Nazism
  
  











  



  
As We Go Marching
John T. Flynn

Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1944

A Hard Look In The Mirror

+ Political Realities vs. Political Labels
+ Well written study of the economic roots of fascism
+ The Roots of American Fascism.
  
  











  



  
The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution
Zeev Sternhell, Mario Sznajder, ...

Princeton University Press, 1994

Worth the Effort

+ A Tumult of Truth

I had to read this book for a class on European Nationalism, and it was amazing. It took a very long time to read, as it is a hard book and a complex one, and discusses in-depth unfamiliar ideas and especially unfamiliar people. This, however, is what makes it so good: it is completely original, to ...
  
  











  



  
Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought
A. James Gregor

Princeton University Press, 2004

One of the best analysis's of Italian Fascism to date

+ A Total Failure--Or A Complete Success?

A. James Gregor has written one of the definitive work on the nature and Ideology of Fascism by taking a common sense approach all to rare in academia. He goes directly to Fascist theorists on economics, sociology and philosophy, and forms a coherent image of a coherent doctrine. He shows the ...
  
  











  



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