American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252022852)

The founder of the American Nazi party and its leader until he was murdered in 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell was one of the most significant extremist strategists and ideologists of the postwar period. His influence has only increased since his death.

A powerful catalyst and innovator, Rockwell broadened his constituency beyond the core Radical Right by articulating White Power politics in terms that were subsequently appropriated by the one-time klansman David Duke. He played a major role in developing Holocaust revisionism, now an orthodoxy of the Far Right. He also helped politicize Christian Identity, America's most influential right-wing religious movement, and welded together an international organization of neo-Nazis. All of these extremist movements continue to thrive today.

Frederick Simonelli's biography of this powerful and enigmatic figure draws on primary sources of extraordinary depth, including declassified FBI files and manuscripts and other materials held by Rockwell's family and associates. The first objective assessment of the American Nazi party and an authoritative study of the roots of neo-nazism, neo-fascism, and White Power extremism in postwar America, American Fuehrer is shocking and absorbing reading.


Author: Frederick J. Simonelli
ISBN-10: 0252022858
ISBN-13: 9780252022852
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/1999
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.29w x 0.83d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/31/1999 pg. 74
Booklist 07/01/1999 pg. 1904
Books & Culture 09/01/2000 pg. 22
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2000 pg. 30 - Outstanding