When he writes about fascism, Paul shows his historical scholarship at its sinewy best. He is so uniformly quotable here as to defy excerption. Try the essay "Don't Blame Fascism" for a demolition of the neocon conceit that fascism was a leftist deviation; or see Paul toss and gore the silly notion of "Islamofascism." -- John Derbyshire in Taki's Magazine, 3 January 2013
Paul Gottfried (b. 1941) has been one of America's leading intellectual historians and paleoconservative thinkers for over 40 years, and is the author of many books, including the landmark Conservatism in America (2007). A critic of the neoconservative movement, he has warned against the growing lack of distinctions between the Democratic and Republican parties and the rise of the managerial state. He has been acquainted with many of the leading American political figures of recent decades, including Richard Nixon and Patrick Buchanan. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient.
Introduction 1. History or Hysteria 2. Oswald Spengler and the Inspiration of the Classical Age 3. The Sacred Eclipsed? 4. On "Being Jewish" 5. A Post-Liberal America 6. The Managerial President 7. The Good Old Order 8. Germany's War Wounds 9. War and Democracy 10. For Zionists, Time to Choose 11. Wrong Revolution 12. Bourgeois Radical 13. The Marcuse Factor 14. Mussolini in the Mideast 15. Rogue Notions 16. Invisible Fist 17. Ilana, Israel and the Paleos 18. The Patron Saint of White Guilt 19. Victor's History 20. A Man in Full 21. The Myth of "Judeo-Christian Values" 22. Don't Blame Fascism 23. The Inspiration of Joe Sobran 24. George F. Kennan's Realism 25. Institutions of Higher Emoting