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Article: American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.(Book review)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
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- March 1, 2007
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America By Chris Hedges Simon & Schuster, Inc. 254 pages
There's probably no harsher accusation in American politics today than the tag of fascist. It's even worse than calling someone a communist, partly because the word communist has been used so indiscriminately over the years--Sen. Joe McCarthy once called President Dwight Eisenhower a communist. But the charge of fascism, on the other hand, still stings.
In fact, the news media in this country never use the word fascist to describe a contemporary American political figure. The word is virtually taboo. The nation as a whole seems to believe that a ...