Friendly fascism : the new face of power in America / / Bertram Gross ; cover design by Mauricio Diaz

• Autore: Gross Bertram
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2016; ©1980
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.520973
• Soggetto topico: Elite (Social sciences) - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government; United States Economic policy
• Persona (resp. second.): DiazMauricio
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Friendly fascism
• ISBN: 1-4976-8940-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817157103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Forbidden bookshelf.