04744nam 2200637 450 991046586970332120200520144314.01-4976-8940-6(CKB)3710000000577510(EBL)4353479(SSID)ssj0001626431(PQKBManifestationID)16362762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001626431(PQKBWorkID)14931377(PQKB)11553564(MiAaPQ)EBC4353479(Au-PeEL)EBL4353479(CaPaEBR)ebr11150345(CaONFJC)MIL889826(OCoLC)935669619(EXLCZ)99371000000057751020160215h20161980 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFriendly fascism the new face of power in America /Bertram Gross ; cover design by Mauricio DiazNew York, New York :Open Road Integrated Media,2016.©19801 online resource (399 p.)Forbidden BookshelfDescription based upon print version of record.Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PlanningTechnology: 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 DemandsDetente: 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; 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 PresidencyRemolding 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-Style12. 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 ViolencePrecision PurgingForbidden bookshelf.Elite (Social sciences)United StatesUnited StatesPolitics and governmentUnited StatesEconomic policyElectronic books.Elite (Social sciences)305.520973Gross Bertram128115Diaz MauricioMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465869703321Friendly fascism2084649UNINA