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Katy Hull
Princeton University Press, $35 (cloth)
<https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691208107/the-machine-has-a-soul>
On the eve of the November 1938 midterm elections, President Franklin
Roosevelt delivered a forceful radio address. “If American democracy
ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by
peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens,” he remarked, “then
Fascism and Communism . . . will grow in strength in our land.” While
opposition to communism was a standard current in U.S. politics, the
rise of American sympathy with fascism had become an urgent concern for
Roosevelt. Among the most visible sympathizers of the time was the
anti-Semitic radio broadcaster Charles Coughlin, who regularly reached
tens of millions of listeners, but Roosevelt and his administration knew
fascist sympathy was diffuse among prominent Americans. From Henry Ford
to the esteemed, path-blazing/New York Times/foreign correspondent Anne
O’Hare McCormick, expressions of fascist sympathy had reached the center
of mainstream discourse and American political thought by the late 1930s.
http://bostonreview.net/politics/justin-h-vassallo-americans-who-embraced-mussolini
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