America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance With Foreign Dictators - Couverture rigide

Heilbrunn, Jacob

 
9781324094661: America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance With Foreign Dictators
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ISBN 10 : 1324094664 ISBN 13 : 9781324094661
Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024

Synopsis

A leading observer of the right explains the long, disturbing history behind Donald Trump’s admiration for Vladimir Putin and Ron DeSantis’s veneration of Victor Orban

Why is today’s Republican Party, which claims to be the defender of American values, so drawn to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the brazenly illiberal Victor Orban, who has crushed an independent judiciary and political dissent in Hungary? As Jacob Heilbrunn shows, the obvious affection conservatives display for foreign autocrats, though a striking and seemingly inexplicable fact of our current moment, dates to the First World War. Since that time, leading intellectuals, journalists and politicians on the right have always been drawn to what they perceive as the impressive strength of authoritarians abroad―including Kaiser Wilhelm, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler and Augusto Pinochet―who offered models of how to fight back against liberalism and progressivism domestically. For decades, conservatives railed against communist fellow travellers in America, but have their own delusional history of apologetics. In this fast-paced, often-droll account, Heilbrunn argues that dictator worship is a longstanding romantic impulse that fits firmly within the modern American political tradition―and shows what it means for us today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jacob Heilbrunn is the editor of the National Interest and nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and has written for the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, and other outlets. He is the author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons.

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Éditeur
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1324094664
ISBN 13 
9781324094661
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
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