Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture. By . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 264. In October 1968, the segregationist Alabama lawmaker George Wallace spoke to a crowd of 15,000 in the Boston Common as part of his controversial third-party presidential campaign. Journalists estimated that the assembled onlookers were split fifty-fifty between Wallace supporters and protestors, though the jeers reportedly outweighed the cheers.
