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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good bright condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Fascism in its green years had an appeal for responsible men of good will a truth which contemporary historians have chosen to overlook. It has been all too easy from the vantage point of the sixties to see the early growth of fascism as malignant and as the inevitable precursor of Hitler’s concentration camps. But in the confusion of the twenties and early thirties some European intellectuals saw in fascism an exciting alternative to faltering bourgeois liberalism. THE APPEAL OF FASCISM analyses the theories of society proposed by such men as Marinetti and Maurras and traces the relationship between these men and the political movements of which they were both the progenitors and the propagandists. Each of the book’s four sections deals with a single country-Italy Germany France and England. The principal figures discussed are D’Annunzio Malaparte Gentile and Marinetti: J?nger Bronnen Heidegger and Spengler; C?line Maurras Brasillach and Drieu La Rochelle; Yeats Pound and Wyndham Lewis. These were all men who in common with intellectuals of quite different political affiliations despised the comfortable assumptions of the bourgeoisie were disenchanted with democracy and were actuated by a sense of urgency in the face of what they conceived to be an imminent and profound social crisis. The value of Alastair Hamilton’s challenging study is that it enables us to see the tragedy of these men’s lives in perspective and to understand how they came to make the choices that they made. (SP)