William Hitchcock: Faschismus in den USA. Reflektionen über die 1930er Jahre

In the organizer's words:

Fascism has a curious history in the USA. While Italian fascism was of great interest to American elites in the 1920s and early 1930s, the German version seemed less attractive but played an important role in the emergence of the "new right" in the US. William Hitchcock sheds light on why European fascism failed to gain traction in the US despite the prolonged economic crisis of the 1930s and why these ideas resurged in the post-war period and how they became the dominant ideology in much of the Republican Party after the Cold War.

William Hitchcock is James Madison Professor of History and Director of the Governing America in a Global Age research initiative at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (2018), a New York Times bestseller.

Language: English
Location: Heidelberg Center for American Studies (Hauptstraße 120, 69117 Heidelberg)

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In the series Schlaglicht USA