A contributing editor to National Review, an outspoken conservative pundit and Iraq War proponent, and the son of Lucianne Goldberg (the woman who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and to “save the dress”), Goldberg has made a name for himself by being brashly conservative. That Goldberg would make these seemingly ludicrous assertions and present such a reductivist version of history is hardly a surprise for anyone who has followed his career.

Therefore, his argument continues, all liberals are fascists. Goldberg wants us to believe that not only were Hitler and Mussolini fascist, brutal, authoritarian rulers, they were also avowed liberals. Historians, politicians, and the media have all contributed to our great misunderstanding of fascist ideology. We’ve been taught to believe that fascism is a movement of the right, when in fact, it’s a movement of the left. Kennedy, organic food-lovers, and, well, pretty much every contemporary liberal.Īpparently, we’ve all had it wrong. So too was Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Due to both Wilson’s well-known use of anti-German propaganda during World War I and the former president’s desire for an international military and legislative governing body, Goldberg claims that Wilson was clearly a fascist. Urn:oclc:433148254 Scandate 20110329161435 Scanner Goldberg, Liberal Fascism (Doubleday, 2007)Īccording to Jonah Goldberg’s new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, the world’s first true fascist leader was Woodrow Wilson. OL8052900W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.38 Pages 506 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0385517696 Urn:lcp:liberalfascismse00gold:epub:aa76d154-f448-4cb7-9fbd-01508b61363c Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier liberalfascismse00gold Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9m33p174 Isbn 9780385511841Ġ385511841 Lccn 2007010668 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL17255869M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:02:33 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA137113 Boxid_2 CH120016 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Comment Set Scanfee to 100 on all Pre-June IA Sponsored Books as per Robert Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg