A fascinating and timely book that explores fascism and dictatorships through a historical lens (Upton Sinclair,, Trotsky, among others) and poses the question whether we have experienced fascism in this country or are at risk to with the current polarized politics. The argument is that we don't have the same conditions from a socio-economic, institutional support, etc. to support this - although we could have patterns and policies that sure feel like fascism. A very interesting read -- not only to understand history (and read some iconic essays on the topic through history), but also to ponder our future in America.

Thank you to Netgalley and W. W. Norton & Company for an ARC and I voluntarily left this review..

This collection of essays about fascism is interesting and relevant to modern times. There are selections from a wide variety of people and some focus on other parts of the world, while most are about America.
It's especially interesting how some of the things that seem shocking are actually things that could have been predicted or were already prevalent. Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

An excellent collection for anyone interested in the topic of fascism broadly. A good reference resource to have on hand for those engaged in contemporary conversation or research.

Thank you to Netgalley and W.W Norton Publishing for a digital ARC of this book.

I want to preface this review by mentioning this is an anthology and I always find it difficult to rate an anthology more often in fiction than non fiction. Here the author has made the choice to include these already written texts but it doesn't mean a couple unnecessary choices changes my my opinion of the entirety of the whole book.

For starters too many people talking about Trump and asking if he is a fascist. And how he changed politics forever. No he didn't, he just said the quiet part out loud and made the fact that politicians lie all the time more obvious than people felt comfortable with.

This book does do a great job of pin pointing the times in history when there was fascist governments and leaders and using them to compare to others in history. I especially appreciated the ones that were not Trump related, as I enjoyed learning more about the interworking of different governments and leaders around the world.