Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s
"A first-rate book. Others have told parts of this story, but no one has put it all together as Alpers does. His readings of oft-analyzed texts such as George Orwell's "1984" and Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism" are illuminating and fresh, and he brings to light a good deal of less familiar source material. (Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester)"