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The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party - The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics (Hardcover)
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The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party - The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
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Seventy-five years ago, Henry Wallace, then the vice president of
the United States, mounted a campaign about the "Danger of American
Fascism." As fighting in the European and Japanese theatres drew to
a close, Wallace warned that the country might win the war and lose
the peace; that the fascist threat the United States. was battling
abroad had a terrifying domestic variant, growing rapidly in power:
wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media. Wallace
predicted that if the New Deal project was not renewed and expanded
in the postwar era, American fascists would use fear mongering,
xenophobia, and racism to regain economic and political power. He
championed a progressive postwar world-an alternative to the rising
triumphalist "American Century" notion in which the United States
rejected colonialism and imperialism. Wallace's political vision-as
well as his nomination to remain vice president-was sidelined by
Democratic big city bosses and southern segregationists. In the
decades to come, other progressives would mount similar campaigns:
George McGovern and Jesse Jackson most prominently. As John Nichols
chronicles in this book, they ultimately failed-a warning to
would-be reformers today-but their efforts provide us with insights
into the nature of the Democratic Party and strategic lessons for
the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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