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A glance at corporate and business authoritarianism that William Shirer called, "a very important thing I've ever before seen how America might go fascist democratically." In 1980, US capitalist politics used a "nice-guy mask", a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate and business overseers were merging with a centralized express power in order to control the populace. This immanent corporate and business authoritarianism threatened to subvert constitutional democracy. But unlike the violent and rapid usurpations that led to fascism in the times of Hitler, Mussolini, and japan empire contractors, this new "smiling" American breed of fascism was attaining ground through progressive and silent infringements on the freedoms of the American people. First posted over three generations before, Friendly Fascism is uncannily predictive of the hazards and realities of current politics and economic electricity trends. Publisher Bertram Gross, a presidential adviser during the New Deal period, traces the history and logic of declining democracy in First World countries and pinpoints capitalist transnational progress and inappropriate responses to global crises as the resources of overdue 20th-century despotism in the us. Gross issues ever-urgent warnings in what happens when big business and big federal become bedfellows - serious inflation, recurring tough economy, overt and concealed unemployment, the poisoning of the surroundings - and simultaneously proffers a practical shift of perspective that may help US citizens build a truer democracy. He imagines an America in which heroes are no more needed and the authority is a group of non-elitists who "recognize the ignorance of the wise as well as the wisdom of the ignorant".
