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Madeleine Albright, the first woman to hold the office of U.S. secretary of state, argues that fascism outlived the twentieth century and now threatens peace and justice more than at any point since World War II. Drawing on her early life in Czechoslovakia and her career as a diplomat and academic, she describes a fascist as someone who presumes to speak for an entire nation or group, ignores the rights of others and will use violence to reach their goals. Her subjects span the 1920s to the 2010s, among them Benito Mussolini, Hugo Chávez, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Donald Trump. She names economic decline, social disorder and a divided opposition among the conditions for their rise.
Brad Feld, who met Albright through Wellesley connections and once sat beside her at dinner, noted that she spends some 250 pages working through a term now used so often it has come to mean nothing.
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Brad Feld (Co-Founder/Foundry Group)
Amy and I have been fortunate enough to get to know Madeleine Albright through our collective relationships at Wellesley. Amy knows her better, but I had an amazing dinner sitting next to her one night where I walked away thinking “I wish she had been born here so she could run for president.” The word “fascism” is once again being used so often as to mean nothing, so Albright spends 250 or so pages walking the reader through real fascism, how fascists behave, what they do to their countries (and societies), and what – as a citizen in a democratic country – to pay attention to. She covers the famous ones, but also some not so famous ones, especially those who came to power in the context of a theoretically democratic society.
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