Book. Large Octavo.

Book. Large Octavo.

24 cm, 263, acid-free paper, date stamped on inner flyleaf.

24 cm, 263, acid-free paper, date stamped on inner flyleaf.

24 cm. viii, 263, [1] pages. Notes. Bibliographical Note. Index. Acid-free

24 cm. viii, 263, [1] pages. Notes. Bibliographical Note. Index. Acid-free paper. Inscribed and dated by author on fep. Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (26 May 1921-30 September 2018) was an American historian, journalist and political commentator. He was an influential scholar on the subjects of terrorism and political violence. In Mandatory Palestine, he worked as a correspondent before moving to the United States. He was editor of the Journal of Contemporary History and of Survey from 1956 to 1964. He was Director of the Institute of Contemporary History in London from 1965 to 1994, From 1969 he was a member, and later Chairman (until 2000), of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington. He was Professor of the History of Ideas at Brandeis University from 1968 to 1972, and University Professor at Georgetown University from 1976 to 1988. Derived from a Kirkus review: Laqueur considers its history, evolution, and a variety of current manifestations. Historical fascism, he suggests, is limited to the regimes of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. He is careful to distinguish between the true barbarism of Nazism and the more ``benign'' form of Italian fascism. But both regimes were an uneasy mix of reactionary, traditional, and forward-looking elements. In the second section, ``Neofascism, '' Laqueur examines the current reemergence of fascism in Europe, in nationalistic movements fueled by such elements as the fear of immigrants and resurgent anti-Semitism. The last section, ``Post-fascism'' raises parallels between fascism and some forms of Islamic fundamentalism; these comparisons are sure to generate debate. With a conclusion devoted to the prospects for fascism in the future and a valuable bibliographical note, the book is a welcome addition at a time when we are witnessing the revival of a political force once written off as extinct.