BOOKS AUTHORITARIANISM

 

Adorno, Theodor, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, The Authoritarian Personality, Verso, 2019

 

Altemeyer, Bob, The Authoritarian Specter, Harvard University Press, 1996

 

Applebaum, Anne, Twilight of democracy: the seductive lure of authoritarianism, Vintage, 2021

 

Axworthy, Michael, Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic, Oxford University Press, 2016

 

Beauchamp, Zack, The reactionary spirit: how America's most insidious political tradition swept the world, PublicAffairs, 2024

 

Blamires, Cyprian, World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia - 2 Volume set, ABC-CLIO, 2006

 

Campbell, Andy, We are Proud Boys: how a right-wing street gang ushered in a new era of American extremism, Grand Central Publishing, 2022

 

Clover, Charles, Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism, Yale University Press, 2017

 

Daniels, Jessie, White Lies, Routledge, 1997

 

Darby, Seyward, Sisters in hate: American women on the front lines of white nationalism, Little, Brown Paperbacks, 2021

 

Davies, Peter, Derek Lynch, The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right (Routledge Companions to History), Routledge, 2002

 

Dean, John W., Authoritarian nightmare: Trump and his followers, Melville House, 2021

 

DiMaggio, Anthony, Rising Fascism in America (Critical Interventions), Routledge, 2021

 

FREEDEN, MICHAEL,  OXFORD HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES OHBK PAPER, Oxford University Press, 2015

 

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (Editor), Janet Ward (Editor), Fascism in America: past and present, Cambridge University Press, 2023

 

Gessen, M., Surviving autocracy, Riverhead Books, 2021

 

Giroux, Henry A., American nightmare: facing the challenge of fascism

 

Graham, David A., The Project: how Project 2025 is reshaping America, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2025

 

Heaphy, Timothy J., Harbingers: what January 6 and Charlottesville reveal about threats to American democracy, Steerforth, 2024

 

Hechter, Michael, Christine Horne, Theories of Social Order: A Reader, Second Edition, Stanford University Press, 2009

 

Jost, John T., Left and Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction, Oxford University Press, 2021

 

Kalb, Marvin, Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy, Brookings Institution Press, 2018

 

Kantrowitz, Stephen David, Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies), Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2000

 

Kendzior, Sarah, Hiding in plain sight: the invention of Donald Trump and the erosion of America, Flatiron Books, 2021

 

Maddow, Rachel, Prequel: an American fight against Fascism, Crown, 2023

 

Massanari, Adrienne Lynne, Gaming democracy: how Silicon Valley leveled up the Far Right, The MIT Press, 2024

 

Mounk, Yascha, The people vs. democracy: why our freedom is in danger and how to save it, Harvard University Press, 2019

 

Neuborne, Burt, Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment, The New Press, 2015

 

Neus, Nora, 24 hours in Charlottesville: an oral history of the stand against White supremacy, Beacon Press, 2024

 

Norris, Pippa, Cultural backlash: Trump, Brexit, and authoritarian populism, Cambridge University Press, 2019

 

Payne, Scott, Code name: Pale Horse: how I went undercover to expose America's Nazis, Atria Books, 2026

 

Posner, Sarah, Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2021

 

Rachman, Gideon, The age of the strongman: how the cult of the leader threatens democracy around the world, Other Press, 2023

 

Renton, D. K., The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right, Haymarket Books, 2019

 

Romig, Rollo, I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India, Penguin Books, 2024

 

Sajó, András, Renáta Uitz, Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, Routledge, 2023

 

Schiff, Adam B., Midnight in Washington: how we almost lost our democracy and still could, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2022

 

Sidanius, Jim, Felicia Pratto, Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression (Volume 0), Cambridge University Press, 2001

 

Snyder, Timothy, The road to unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, Crown, 2019

 

Sunstein, Cass, Can it happen here?: authoritarianism in America, Dey Street Books, 2018

 

Szelényi, Zsuzsanna, Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary, Hurst, 2026