000			03017cam a2200409Ii 4500
001			on1080275739
003			OCoLC
005			20200617180024.0
008			181227s2020 enk b 001 0 eng d
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dYDXIT _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dNFG
020			_a1788737407 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781788737401 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781788737418 _q(UK electronic book)
020			_z9781788737425 _q(US electronic book)
035			_a(OCoLC)1080275739
043			_an-us---
092			_a324.2736 _bN619
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aNichols, John, _d1959- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe fight for the soul of the Democratic Party : _bthe enduring legacy of Henry Wallace's antifascist, antiracist politics / _cJohn Nichols.
264		1	_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bVerso, _c2020.
300			_axvii, 286 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aSeventy-five years ago, Henry Wallace, then the sitting Vice President of the United States, mounted a campaign to warn about the persisting "Danger of American Fascism." As fighting in the European and Japanese theaters drew to a close, Wallace warned that the country may win the war and lose the piece; that the fascist threat that the U.S. was battling abroad had a terrifying domestic variant, growing rapidly in power: wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media. Wallace warned that if the New Deal project was not renewed and expanded in the post-war era, American fascists would use fear mongering, xenophonbia, and racism to regain the economic and political power that they lost. He championed an alternative, progressive vision of a post-war world-an alternative to triumphalist "American Century" vision then rising--in which the United States rejected colonialism and imperialism. Wallace's political vision - as well as his standing in the Democratic Party - were quickly sidelined. In the decades to come, other progressive forces would mount similar campaigns: George McGovern and Jesse Jackson more prominently. As John Nichols chronicles in this book, they ultimately failed - a warning to would-be reformers today - but their successive efforts provide us with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party, and a strategic script for the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
610	2	0	_aDemocratic Party (U.S.) _xHistory. _9363493
600	1	0	_aWallace, Henry A. _q(Henry Agard), _d1888-1965. _9288827
650		0	_aFascism _zUnited States. _995974
650		0	_aRacism _zUnited States. _953238
650		0	_aSocial change _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _954386
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _968161
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y20th century. _972285
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y21st century. _9124279
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c312790 _d312790