Introduction: Nazism as an epitome of evil for American ethics -- From Hun to Holocaust: American's depiction of Nazism before and after camp liberation -- America über alles: the promise of an American postwar -- Are you now or have you ever been: Nazism and the second Red Scare -- Pod people and swastikas: Nazism and images of the Communist threat -- The matinee war: selling the war against Communism with the Nazis of World War II -- White power, Black power: the use of Nazi analogy in civil rights and Black power rhetoric -- Conclusion: the repercussions of ubiquity
Summary
This book examines major political movements during the Cold War through the rhetorical trope of the Nazi analogy. The examination pits ideas concerning utopian and dystopian social orders against the problems associated with reproducing rhetorical tropes throughout the various agencies of mass American culture