1965 Holt, RInehart and Winston; Stated FIrst Edition. Former library copy with stamps and adhesive staining. DJ is unclipped with moderate shelf wear and adhesive staining, but fully intact and has been placed in mylar. Cloth boards have writing on the spine and light adhesive staining, but are otherwise very bright with crisp embossing. End papers have adhesive staining. First page has top third ripped out as shown in photos. Text is clean and unmarked. Pages have a damp ripple to them, but no actual stain and it does not affect text at all. Other than what has been noted, pages have no creases, rips, or stains and are complete. Binding is sturdy, square and tight. Book is still very readable. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: (from the back)
Charles Maurras, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler.
Three different men, in three different countries. One was a narrowly religious, fiercely reactionary journalist. One a former Marxist converted to a doctrine of personal power and national glory. One a failed artist and ex-Army corporal with grandiose visions and a flair for public speaking.
At other times, all would have been considered harmless cranks. But in a France split by the Dreyfus Case and then bled white by war...in an Italy cheated out of the spoils of a costly victory and rife with social unrest...in a Germany shamed by defeat and shattered by Depression...each of these men gave voice to the vast discontent and desire for radical solutions that seemed destined to plunge Europe into a new Dark Age.
This book is the story of that tragic era.
"The most important attempt to fuse philosophical and historical thought since Hannah Arendt's _Origins of Totalitarianism_...a magnificently thoughtful, deeply original analysis of a central facet of our historical experience."
-Fritz Stern, Columbia University Subject code: