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McCoy is an expert in geospatial archaeology $26.95T | £23.00 Cloth and Associate Professor in the Department of 978-0-520-30316-4 Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of over forty scientific journal articles on the archaeology of the Pacific Islands. ALSO OF INTEREST The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future by Robert L. Kelly 978-0-520-30348-5, $19.95T | £16.99 Cloth Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages by Patrick E. 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Now that actual news is presented as “fake news” and false news becomes government policy, A Brief History of Fascist Lies urges us to remember that the current talk of “post-truth” has a long political and intellectual lineage that we cannot ignore. “There is no better book on fascism’s complex and vexed relationship with truth.” —Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them Praise for Federico Finchelstein’s previous book, From Fascism to Populism in History “But is Trump fascist? A proto-fascist? Fascist-curious? In his thoughtful new book . Federico Finchelstein concedes that Trump’s campaign ‘had clear fascist and racist undertones,’ and he cites the ‘fascist pedigree’ of Trump’s ‘America first’ slogan.” A very short introduction to fascist lies —Washington Post from Mussolini to Donald Trump. “A timely and commendable analysis.” —The Quarterly Review MAY History/World 138 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research WORLD and Eugene Lang College in New York City. He is the author of several books, $19.95T | £16.99 Cloth including From Fascism to Populism in History, Transatlantic Fascism, and The 978-0-520-34671-0 Ideological Origins of the Dirty War. His books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, and Italian. He contributes to major American, European, and Latin American media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, CNN, Foreign Policy, Clarín, Corriere della Sera, Nexos, and Folha de S.Paulo. ALSO OF INTEREST From Fascism to Populism in History by Federico Finchelstein 978-0-520-30935-7, $24.95sc | £21.00 Paper The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit by Scott Kurashige 978-0-520-29491-2, $18.95tx | £15.99 Paper Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas by Macarena Gómez-Barris 978-0-520-29667-1, $18.95tx | £15.99 Paper 2 | TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE University of California Press A Q&A with FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN, author of A BRIEF HISTORY oF FASCIST LIES What motivated you to write this book? Since I started researching fascism, some two decades ago, I have been intrigued about how and why fascists lied so much. I have presented on this topic, especially in Italy, the place where fascism was born, as well as in the United States. And now that lies are back in power on a global scale, I thought it was especially important to write a book on this. What do you want your readers to understand about the history of fascist lies? I want readers to explore the ways in which past and present are connected in terms of the history of fascists lying. In the past, racist lies led to extreme political violence. This is now more than ever a key lesson of the history of fascism. If we want to understand our troublesome present, we need to pay attention to the history of fascist ideologues and to how and why their rhetoric led to the Holocaust, war, and destruction. We need history to remind us how so much violence and racism happened in such a short period. How did the Nazis and other fascists come to power and murder millions of people? They did so by spreading ideological lies. Fascist political power was greatly derived from the cooptation of truth and the immense promulgation of lies. But how does this relate to the present? Today we’re seeing an emergent wave of new right-wing populist leaders throughout the world. And much like fascist leaders of the past, they derive a great deal of their political power from questioning reality, endorsing myth, encouraging rage and paranoia, and promoting lies. Some people are describing this moment as “post-truth” and President Trump frequently accuses the media of lying, despite his own penchant for making false statements.