The Appeal of Fascism

The Appeal of Fascism

"The Appeal of Fascism: A Study of Intellectuals and Fascism 1919-1945" is a 1971 book by Alastair Hamilton. It examines poets, philosophers, artists, and writers with fascist sympathies and convictions in Italy, Germany, France, and England.

The book deals nation by nation with the response of intellectuals to Fascism, as well as events like the rise of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's National Socialist Revolution, and the Second World War.

It was first published in London by Blond in 1971 (ISBN 0-218-51426-3), then by Macmillan, in New York, followed by a Discus Printing (Publisher: Avon).

Principal subjects

The principal figures discussed are:

Italy

Gabriele D'Annunzio, Curzio Malaparte, Giovanni Gentile, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Germany

Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Niekisch, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

France

Charles Maurras, Georges Valois, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jules Romains, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Jacques Doriot, and André Gide

England

Roy Campbell, Henry Williamson, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Percy Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot.

Photographs

In the center are photographs of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giovanni Gentile, Benedetto Croce, Curzio Malaparte, Gabriele D'Annunzio's membership card of the Fascio Fiumano di Combattimento, Benito Mussolini & Gabriele D'Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, Ardego Soffici, Giovanni Papini, an illustration of Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jünger, Arnolt Bronnen, Otto Abetz & Robert Brasillach, Martin Heidegger, Jean Cocteau & Arno Breker, Sacha Guitry, Arno Breker & Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Charles Maurras, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Roy Campbell, Henry Williamson, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Percy Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot.


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