Books
September, 1980
Bertram Gross, in his book Friendly Fascism (M. Evans), sees something that the rest of us only vaguely sense: "The subversion of constitutional democracy is more likely to occur not through violent and sudden usurpation but rather through the gradual and silent encroachments that would accustom the American people to the destruction of their freedoms." In other words, it can happen here. And Gross shows us how we might be served Hitler with a grin, Mussolini with a PR package. He exam...