{"product_id":"the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-democratic-party-the-enduring-legacy-of-henry-wallaces-anti-fascist-anti-racist-politics","title":"The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eFighting fascism at home and abroad begins with the consolidation of a progressive politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy-five years ago, Henry Wallace, then the sitting Vice President of the United States, mounted a campaign to warn about the persisting \"Danger of American Fascism.\" As fighting in the European and Japanese theaters drew to a close, Wallace warned that the country may win the war and lose the piece; that the fascist threat that the U.S. was battling abroad had a terrifying domestic variant, growing rapidly in power: wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media. Wallace warned that if the New Deal project was not renewed and expanded in the post-war era, American fascists would use fear mongering, xenophonbia, and racism to regain the economic and political power that they lost. He championed an alternative, progressive vision of a post-war world-an alternative to triumphalist \"American Century\" vision then rising--in which the United States rejected colonialism and imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWallace's political vision - as well as his standing in the Democratic Party - were quickly sidelined. In the decades to come, other progressive forces would mount similar campaigns: George McGovern and Jesse Jackson more prominently. As John Nichols chronicles in this book, they ultimately failed - a warning to would-be reformers today - but their successive efforts provide us with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party, and a strategic script for the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roots Bookstore \u0026 Market","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48415972884647,"sku":"9781788737401","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/8312\/8231\/files\/9781788737401.jpg?v=1776194239","url":"https:\/\/rootsbookstore.com\/products\/the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-democratic-party-the-enduring-legacy-of-henry-wallaces-anti-fascist-anti-racist-politics","provider":"Roots Bookstore \u0026 Market","version":"1.0","type":"link"}