The Beast Reawakens

Martin A. Lee

Routledge Chapman & Hall, Oct 1, 1999 - Political Science - 546 pages

If you thought Nazism died with Hitler, think again. In "The Beast Reawakens," journalist Martin A. Lee documents the revival of fascist ideals from the wake of the Second World War to recent violent incidents in Europe and America. Defeated in war, many Nazis built new and profitable lives for themselves, stirring political intrigue and serving as role models to a new generation of white supremacists like Americans Francis Parker Yockey, whose book "Imperium" became the bible of anti-Semitism, and Willis Carto, who continues to run several ostensibly mainstream policy groups that deny the Holocaust ever took place. Often forced underground yet certain of their cause, this second generation of extremists can be linked to such recent violence as the Oklahoma City bombings, the shocking lynching of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and the abortion clinic bombings by Eric Rudolf, who remains a fugitive. With extraordinary detail and insight, "The Beast Reawakens" examines the many strands of rightwing extremism worldwide to put the current fascist resurgence in contemporary perspective.

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Review: The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups & Right-wing Extremists

User Review  - Isidore - Goodreads

Useful but dated. The book covers events through 1994, and Fascism (in one guise or another) has made immense inroads into mainstream politics since then; a revised edition is needed, although in ...

Review: The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups & Right-wing Extremists

User Review  - Dan - Goodreads

Alarmist in its assessment of its own time, and not very flattering to modern Germany, still a very interesting book about where everybody scuttled off to when the lights went out in Berlin 1945, and ...

About the author

Martin A. Lee is the co-author, with Norman Soloman, of Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias In News Media and the author of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion. Interviewed as an expert on terrorism, espionage, and media issues, Lee has been a guest on CBS's 48 Hours, CNN's International Hour, CNBC, MSNBC, and NPR's Fresh Air. His articles have been published in numerous outlets including Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, The Nation, Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Mother Jones, and Spin.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Beast Reawakens
• Author: Martin A. Lee
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999
• ISBN: 0415925460, 9780415925464
• Length: 546 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / American Government / State; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations