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"The term "fascist" has been thrown around in American politics and culture for much of the twentieth and twenty-first century. It is a popular epithet that is used to brand all kinds of political opponents from left to right. What does the term mean? How is it used? How did it show up in American history and culture with the rise of fascist regimes in Europe before World War II? Why has its use persisted even as those regimes were defeated? Why has "fascist" come to carry such negative associations? In Fascism Comes to America Bruce Kuklick explores the history of the use and meaning of fascism in American politics and culture for the past hundred years. His survey spans everything from scholarly work to the statements of politicians, the writings of journalists and pundits, and its use in popular culture, particularly in the way fascism has been employed in film. His goal is to figure out how people have used the concept to critique our politics, to comment on the history of the twentieth century, and as a term of derision in politics and culture. Kuklick argues the term has almost no meaning in the way politicians and pundits have used it. He explores its use in popular culture to show how culture critiqued fascism in serious work-i.e. something like Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men on Huey Long-as well as in comedy and satire. He concludes that the use of the term "fascism" illustrates how language is often drained of meaning as it is employed to deride opposing views or to hide real feelings or issues. --- For example, he explores the way the label "fascist" was applied to Roosevelt and his New Deal and in turn applied by Roosevelt and his supporters to those who opposed the New Deal. This became even more pointed as World War II began and the American Firsters and other isolationist groups traded insults as they fought over whether the United States should get into the war. --- Among other things, Kuklick is trying to understand the way language is used in politics and how culture and politics relate, with culture sometimes taking the lead in explicating what politicians and even academics leave murky"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE -- 1 Thomas Paine: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1945 -- 2 The Lifelong Education of Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Some Reflections upon his Acquaintance Among Books -- PART II TOM PAINE AND THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS -- 3 The Moral Economics of Tom Paine -- 4 Thomas Paine "Prepare in Time an Asylum for Mankind" -- 5 A Note on Common Sense and Christian Eschatology -- 6 Nature and Revolution in Paine's Common Sense -- 7 From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man -- 8 Paine and Burke: God, Nature and Politics -- 9 Thomas Paine: Ransom, Civil Peace, and the Natural Right to Welfare -- 10 Paine's Agrarian Justice (1796) and the Secularisation of Natural Jurisprudence -- PART III PAINE AND REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY -- 11 Thomas Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigrés and the Triumph of Jeffersonian Republicanism -- 12 Radical Lockeanism in American Political Culture -- 13 English Republicanism in the 1790s -- PART IV PAINE AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF IDEAS -- 14 Ideology and the Origins of Liberal America -- 15 The American Revolution and the Transformation of English Republicanism -- 16 Religion and Radicalism: English Political Theory in the Age of Revolution -- 17 Paine, America, and the "Modernization" of Political Consciousness -- PART V LITERARY ANALYSES OF PAINE'S WRITINGS -- 18 The Commonalities of Common Sense -- 19 Style and Identification in Common Sense -- 20 Familial Politics: Thomas Paine and the Killing of the King, 1776 -- 21 Tom Paine and American Loneliness -- 22 Parasiting America: The Radical Function of Heterogeneity in Thomas Paine's Early Writings -- PART VI PAINE IN RADICAL HISTORY -- 23 Radicals and the Making of American Democracy: Toward a New Narrative of American History

"The five Sullivan brothers, at their insistence, were assigned to the same ship in World War II. Predictably when the ship was blown up they all were killed. The Navy buried their mistake in allowing all five to serve on the same ship by turning the five brothers into heroes, complete with a ship named after them, a Hollywood movie, and news coverage that turned five shiftless losers into great American heroes. Kuklick tells the story of who they were, what happened to them, and how they were transformed into heroes by the war publicity machine and Hollywood. He focuses a lot on the film The Fighting Sullivans telling how it got made, how it related to the use of Hollywood in the effort to promote the war, and how the film and the brothers' story was received. He also tells about the continuing half-life of their fame as their dying hometown, Waterloo, Iowa, tried to capitalize on their fame, much to the chagrin of some of some townspeople who remember the real Sullivan brothers. This is a book about the manufacture of heroes in war-time America."--Provided by publisher

In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry

A cultured education -- A student of philosophy -- Ambition constrained -- The sociology of knowledge -- Social change and World War II -- The ambiguity of success -- Social philosophy and civil rights -- Conservative pan-Africanism -- White racism and black power

Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. 1909-1932 -- 1. Ben Shibe and Shibe Park -- 2. The Athletics and North City, 1909-1923 -- 3. Days of Glory, 1924-1932 -- Part II. 1929-1954 -- 4. Shibe Park and Depression Era Conflict -- 5. Tenants and Renters -- 6. Baseball and Business -- 7. The Mack Family and Shibe Park, 1946-1954 -- Part III. 1953-1976 -- 8. Connie Mack Stadium, 1953-1970 -- 9. Race Relations -- 10. Urban Renewal? -- 11. Last Days, 1969-1976

AbstractWhy is someone enduringly prized as a philosopher? To answer this question, this historical case study examines the intersecting careers of John Rawls and R. M. Hare. It looks at their writings, a complex chain of disagreements, the argumentative dimension. The essay moreover explores the clash of differing temperaments. Finally, themes in addition to ratiocination and personality are factored in: the leanings of the institutions that control access to intellectual endeavor; the public square—politics widely conceived—into which the two men were thrown; and the cultural rivalry between England and America after World War Two.

AbstractThis essay first traces change in, roughly, the epistemology of the humanities from the 1950s to the 21st century. The second section looks at how the meaning and options in moral philosophy altered in more or less the same period. The last and easily most speculative section examines how these changes permeated American culture, and how professional philosophers responded to the challenges of the new political world they inhabited.