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Gross Bertram |
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Friendly fascism : the new face of power in America / / Bertram Gross ; cover design by Mauricio Diaz |
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New York, New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2016 |
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©1980 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (399 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Elite (Social sciences) - United States |
United States Politics and government |
United States Economic policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Introduction; Introduction; Preface, 1985; Introduction: A Patriotic Warning; ONE: The Roots of Friendly Fascism; 1. The Rise and Fall of Classic Fascism; Italy, Germany, Japan; Breeding Grounds of Fascism; The Axis; Anti-Fascist Failures; Fascist Exploits; Fascist Ideologies; Destruction of the Axis; Indestructible Myths; 2. The Takeoff Toward a New Corporate Society; The Sun Never Sets on America's "Free World"; The Golden International; Big Welfare for Big Business; More Rational Corporate Planning |
Technology: Starting, Stopping, Suppressing3. The Mysterious Establishment; The Castles of Power; The Ultra-Rich; The Corporate Overseers; The Chief Executive Network; Executive Managers; Junior and Contingent Members; Conflicts Among the Few; Purges and Conversions; Purifying Ideologies; 4. The Side Effects of Success; An Abundance of Frustrations; Falling Apart: Work, Community, Family; Loneliness and Alienation; Crime: The Dirty Secrets; The Erosion of Authority; 5. The Challenge of a Shrinking Capitalist World; New Losses to Communism; Creeping Socialism; Third World Demands |
Detente: A Cooler Cold WarInstability at the Top; 6. Old Crises in New Forms; Untamed Recession; The Hidden Unemployed; The New Inflation: Hyena's Delight; The Dynamite of Class Conflict; Limited War; |
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Unlimited Overkill; TWO: The Specter of Friendly Fascism; 7. The Unfolding Logic; Making the Most of Crises; Consolidating Power; The Cat Feet of Tyranny; Many Paths; 8. Trilateral Empire or Fortress America?; American Retrenchment; A "True Empire"; Alternative Outcomes; 9. The Friendly Fascist Establishment; From Floundering Establishment to Super-America, Inc.; A Righteous Presidency |
Remolding MilitarismThe Restructuring of the Radical Right; New Ideologies of Central Power; Triplespeak; 10. Friendly Fascist Economics; More Stagflation; More Money Moving Upward; An Abundance of Shortages; More Waste and Pollution; More Nuclear Poison; More Junk and Disservices; 11. Subverting Democratic Machinery; Integrating Separate Branches; Friendly Fascist Federalism; Community Carnivals; Contrapuntal Party Harmony; Union-Busting and the Slow Meltdown; The Lessons of the Watergate Conspiracy; Unhinging an Anti-Establishment White House; Coups D'Etat American-Style |
12. Managing Information and MindsInformation as the March; The Symbolic Environment; Image as the Reality; Narrowing the Scope of Controversy; Manufacturing Opinion by Polling; The Electronic Throne; Monitoring as the Message; Womb-to-Tomb Dossiers; Economic and Social Vindicators; Educational Authoritarianism; Custodial Functions; 13. Incentives for System Acceptance; Extended Professionalism; Job, Prometheus, Faust; For Consumers: Kidnapper Candy; Servitude's Services; Conditional Benefactions; Rationed Payoffs; The Effulgent Aura; 14. The Ladder of Terror; The Rungs of Violence |
Precision Purging |
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