The Appeal of Fascism
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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 is divided into four sections discussing the reactions to the rise of Mussolini's Fascism, Hitler's National Socialist Revoloution, the Spanish Civil War, 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).
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[edit] Principal Subjects
The principal figures discussed are:
[edit] Italy
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Curzio Malaparte, Giovanni Gentile, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
[edit] Germany
Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Niekisch, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
[edit] France
Charles Maurras, Georges Valois, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jules Romains, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Jacques Doriot, and André Gide
[edit] England
Roy Campbell, Henry Williamson, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Loomis Pound, Percy Wyndham Lewis, and T.S. Eliot.
[edit] 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 Loomis Pound, Percy Wyndham Lewis, and T.S. Eliot.
