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American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 »

Book cover image of American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 by Kirsten Fermaglich

Authors: Kirsten Fermaglich
ISBN-13: 9781584655497, ISBN-10: 1584655496
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Kirsten Fermaglich

KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Michigan State University.

Book Synopsis

A unique contribution to America's encounter with Holocaust memory that links the use of Nazi imagery to liberal politics

Table of Contents

1"One of the lucky ones" : Stanley Elkins and the concentration camp analogy in Slavery24
2The "comfortable concentration camp" : the significance of Nazi imagery in Betty Friedan's Feminine mystique58
3"An accident of geography" : Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments83
4Robert Jay Lifton and the survivor124

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