ISBN: 158567107X
Godina izdanja: 2001
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Nicholas Fraser - The Voice of Modern Hatred: Tracing the Rise of Neo-Fascism in Europe
Overlook Press, 2001
304 str.
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From Publishers Weekly
Veteran journalist Fraser takes a behind-the-headlines approach to examine the faces of political extremism in contemporary Europe. Bent on understanding `the relationship between the old forms of hatred and the new,` he offers no easy answers to the scourge. Fraser explores the more overt features of the phenomenon, including a thought-provoking chapter on an Arab immigrant responsible for a bombing at a French Jewish school who was killed by police in 1995, but what distinguishes this work is Fraser`s focus on `semi-respectable fascists`-- they may be dressed like everyone else, and yet they are capable of atrocities. He deftly profiles known quantities like David Irving, the British historian (a word some would put in quotation marks) who denies the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz. And in Germany, Fraser attended a murder trial of what the prosecution called the `new type` of extremist--anonymous, acting independently, and embodying a `combination of reclusiveness and fanaticism` in whose mind `every man could be a Fhrer.` In another scene, some neo-Nazi youths demonstrate for Fraser a board game called Pogrom; modeled on Monopoly, its aim is to rid Germany of Jews. Readers may disagree with Fraser`s conviction that `we would never again see... a real fascist government... doing its worst,` openly spouting hatred. But it`s difficult to disagree with his troubling conclusion that any future European fascist leader will not wear `brown trousers and a toothbrush moustache` but, like Austria`s telegenic, xenophobic party leader J”rg Haider (who is profiled here), will be `well-spoken and fashionably-dressed` and `skilled in the arts of euphemism.` Agent, Kris Dahl, ICM (Feb.) Forecast: Focused on Europe, Fraser`s book will seem less than urgent to many American readers; still, it should find a ready audience among readers concerned about the persistence of racism and hate.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
While traversing Europe, Fraser (Continental Drifts: Travels in the New Europe) interviewed Far Right party leaders and members and also attended rallies and meetings. In his travels, he discovered two distinct groups: one that has an open fascination with Nazi Germany, militarism, and racism and another that shares similar interests but hides these views with coded language and presentations of respectability. Fraser sees Jorg Haider, leader of the Austria Freedom Party, as especially dangerous. Fraser also does an excellent job of examining the Holocaust denial movement as a whole and the career of David Irving in particular. An excellent, readable account of the existence of fascism in modern Europe that nicely complements the more scholarly The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the 90s (Frank Cass & Co., 1997) and The Politics of the Extreme Right (Pinter Pub., 2000). For both public and academic libraries.DStephen L. Hupp, Urbana Univ., OH
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Nicholas Fraser was born in London and educated at Oxford. He has worked in New York and London as a journalist for major newspapers and a producer for the BBC. He is also the author of Continental Drifts: Travels in New Europe.

Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Looking For The Fascists
Fuhrers Of Nothing
Lies In Our Time
How To Kill An Arab
Nothing Is The Same
To The Front And Back
The New Lost Tribes Of Europe
The Black Guide
Notes


Nonfiction, Sociology, 158567107X