Young, Lauren
Summary: "Hitler's Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism almost took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details how sympathy for the Nazi cause pervaded the British aristocracy, with significant factions of the upper class actively and methodically pursuing a pro-German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.083 YOUBoyd, Julia
Summary: "From the author of the international bestseller Travelers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy, and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 BOYSummary: In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a "Pro-American Rally." Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a racially "pure" America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Mussolini was not only ruthless- he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him- arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible administration of castor oil. His opponents - including editors, publishers, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MOOBrown, Frederick
Summary: "From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France ("Masterful history...hard to put down."-Henry Kissinger); Zola ("Magnificent." --The New Yorker); andFlaubert ("Impeccable."-James Wood, cover, The New York Times Book Review)-a brilliant reconsideration of the events and the political, social, and religious movements that led to France's embrace of Fascism and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.081 BROElson, Robert T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1976
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORJones, Alex
Summary: In The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, the most persecuted man on Earth, Alex Jones, gives you the good news about the failing plans of the globalists to control humanity.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2023
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Contents: The last spectator -- After the fall -- Birth of the Salò republic -- The fate of the Roman Jews -- Mussolini and Claretta -- A most unhappy family -- Galeazzo Ciano and Edda -- Troubles on all fronts -- The Partisan war develops -- Il duce and the Jews -- The liberation of Rome -- A terrible summer -- More atrocities, greater despair -- "I have ruined Italy" -- The secret negotiations -- In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUSRicks, Thomas E.
Summary: A "dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RICRiemen, Rob
Summary: An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it. In “The Eternal Return of Fascism,” Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weakness of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need for scapegoats, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 RIEWick, Steve.
Summary: "When William L. Shirer agreed to start up the Berlin bureau of Edward R. Murrow's CBS News in the 1930s, he quickly became both the most trusted and most determined reporter in all of Europe. He did not fall for the Nazi propaganda, as some of his esteemed colleagues did, and fought against both Nazi censorship and American disdain for his relentless tactics. He warned of the consequences if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WICBeck, Glenn
Summary: "An international conspiracy between powerful bankers, business leaders, and government officials; closed-door meetings in the Swiss Alps; and calls for a radical transformation of every society on earth--the Great Reset sounds like it is one henchman-with-an-eyepatch away from being the plot for the next James Bond movie. But the Great Reset is not a work of fiction. It is a highly influential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forefront Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.934 BECBosworth, R. J. B.
Summary: An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.091 BOSAxelrod, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2001
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Summary: Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.53 MADPiesing, Mark
Summary: "The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PIEAdams, Henry Hitch
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORAlbright, Madeleine Korbel
Summary: The former U.S. secretary of state presents a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.53 ALBDesmet, Mattias
Summary: "Occasionally, there are books that try to make sense of a key moment in history - and become an indispensable guide to the times we live in. This book is one of them. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective psychosis to take hold. By analysing our current global situation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 DESEatwell, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.533 EATGallagher, Charles R.
Summary: "During WWII, a group of American Catholics openly embraced Nazism. Their armed wing, the Christian Front, stockpiled weapons for the revolution. Charles Gallagher unearths the history of these forgotten terrorists, the mainstream leaders who protected them, the powers who brought them down, and a society that has suppressed their memory"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 GALMacWilliams, Matthew C.
Summary: "An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke to the "exceptional" narrative that dominates our understanding of US history. In 12 lessons, On Fascism exposes the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent othering, and mainstream attitudes that continue to course through American history--from the birth of the nation to Donald Trump"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 MACMarrs, Jim.
Contents: The escape of Adolf Hitler -- A definition of terms -- Communism vs. National Socialism -- 1. THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH. A New Reich begins -- The strange case of Rudolf Hess -- Nazi wonder weapons -- A treasure trove -- The writing on the wall -- II. THE REICH CONSOLIDATES. The Ratlines -- Project paperclip and the space race -- Nazi mind control -- Business as usual -- Kennedy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 320.53 MARTaylor, Miles
Summary: "Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor--The Next Trump. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023