{"product_id":"the-biggest-lie-hardcover-by-joseph-kelly","title":"The Biggest Lie (hardcover) by Joseph Kelly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Kelly tells this story with vivid immediacy.\"-ADAM HOCHSCHILD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sweeping and much needed work of history.\"-GREG GRANDIN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the Antebellum South.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a \"Best of July\" by P\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eublishers Lunch, Lit Hub, Book Culture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, and the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOrange County Register\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen American fascists suddenly goose­stepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical new European import. It was not. It didn't come from abroad. Nor was it new or radical. The seed of American fascism was planted by elite southern planters who insisted that slavery need not be addressed in the Constitution because it would soon die out on its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Biggest Lie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Joseph Kelly chronicles fascism's deep roots in the antebellum South; its codification under Jim Crow; and, then, after the Spanish American War, its ascendency in the form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism, proposing that the nation belongs to a master-race-the original lie of American fascism. In this dark hour of American history, Kelly's gripping story reminds us that the monied elite have always exceled at deploying disinformation to bias and inflame the masses, and that there have always been courageous patriots helping us to fight our way out of darkness toward the light.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48428279103729,"sku":null,"price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/9757\/8890\/files\/ie.jpg?v=1784589807","url":"https:\/\/shopsouthandpine.com\/products\/the-biggest-lie-hardcover-by-joseph-kelly","provider":"South \u0026 Pine and Blue Apple Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}