Acknowledgments
Introduction: Introduction: From Fascism to the Concentration
Camps
1. The Ideological Origins of Fascist Argentina
2. Catholic Fascist Ideology in Argentina
3. Antisemitism, Sex, and Christianity
4. Peronism and Fascism
5. Bombs, Death, and Ideology: From Tacuara to Triple A
6. State Terrorism: The Ideology of the Argentine Dictatorship
Epilogue: History, the Past, and the Present
Notes
Index
Federico Finchelstein is Associate Professor of History and
Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at the New
School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He is the
author of several books on fascism, the Holocaust, and Jewish
history in Latin America and Europe, including Transatlantic
Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy,
1919-1945. He contributes to major American, European, and
Latin American newspapers, including the New York Times, The
Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Mediapart, Clarin, and
Folha de S.Paulo.
"In this masterwork written with a limpid style and an admirable
conceptual clarity, Federico Finchelstein proves that, far from
being merely 'imported,' fascism had deep roots in Argentina, where
it appeared in the early 1930s as a peculiar symbiosis of radical
nationalism and reactionary Catholicism. His book is a fundamental
contribution to the historiography of transnational fascism and the
origins of the 'Dirty War.'"--Enzo Traverso, author of The
Origins of Nazi Violence
"Federico Finchelstein's new book is a persuasive account of
fascism's extra-European reach. He shows the peculiarities and
persistences of Argentina's strain of fascism and its enduring
appeal. From a marginal intellectual movement, the cult of
violence, sexualized myths, and the sacralization of political
authority elevated Argentine fascists to the center of power. Along
the way, Finchelstein reminds us of the monumental important of
ideology, and the
importance of its extremes, in modern politics."--Jeremy Adelman,
author of Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O.
Hirschman
"Once again, Professor Finchelstein has given us an outstanding
piece of work: tremendously erudite and well written, it penetrates
to the core of fascist ideology and practice. For scholars of
European history its extraordinary importance lies in shedding a
new and revealing light on the process of transition from
liberalism to fascism in a country that did not suffer from the
catastrophe of the Great War."--Zeev Sternhell, author of The
Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
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