Volume 51, Number 16 · October 21, 2004

What Was Fascism?

By Adrian Lyttelton
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O. Paxton

Knopf, 321 pp., $26.00

Why is fascism such an elusive object of inquiry? As Robert Paxton notes at the outset of his study, the image of fascism has a deceptive clarity:



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