Dictators, democracy, and American public culture : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / / Benjamin L. Alpers.

• Superior document: Cultural studies of the United States
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural studies of the United States.
• Physical Description: x, 405 p.

Table of Contents

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.