A Brief History of Fascist Lies

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“There is no better book on fascism’s complex and vexed relationship with truth.”––Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them “Federico Finchelstein delivers a vital compendium on a dark seam running through our modern politics. This is not just a deft intellectual history of fascism, but an urgent reminder of the deep well of hate that lies beneath our era of ‘alternative facts’ and ‘fake news.’”––Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post “At a time when politicians like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro claim that information they don’t like is ‘fake news, ’ Finchelstein’s history of fascist lying strikes a chord. From Mussolini onward, truth is what the leader needs it to be.”––Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of Italian and History, New York University “Finchelstein brings clarity and precision to the debate about the populist far right at a time when pundits across the globe casually throw around the term ‘fascist’ with little regard for its history or meaning. Ranging from Europe to the United States to Latin America, Finchelstein shows that dismissing contemporary xenophobic populists as insane swindlers does little to weaken or defeat them and merely allows them to keep winning by waging war on the truth.”––Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy, and author of Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy