America Last The Right's Century–Long Romance with Foreign Dictators [Audiobook] [#706528]

Free Download Jacob Heilbrunn, Kent Klineman (Narrator), "America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators"
English | ASIN: B0CTBCG3R6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:23:00 | 238 MB
In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon.
It dates to WWI, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat the forces of democracy. In the 1920s and 1930s, this affinity became even more pronounced as Hitler and Mussolini attracted a variety of American admirers. Throughout the Cold War, the Right evinced a fondness for autocrats such as Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, while some conservatives wrote apologias for the Third Reich and for apartheid South Africa. The habit of mind is not really about foreign policy, however. As Heilbrunn argues, the Right is drawn to what it perceives as the impressive strength of foreign dictators, precisely because it sees them as models of how to fight against liberalism and progressivism domestically.