Volume 27, Number 16 · October 23, 1980
Is the Party Over?
By Jason Epstein
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by Bertram Gross
M. Evans, 410 pp., $15.00
Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression
by Douglas R. Casey
Stratford Press (distributed by Harper & Row), 290 pp., $12.50
Bertram Gross, a liberal Democrat, a former congressional aide, the major author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1978 in its original form, and now a professor, says in his new book that big business and big government may be turning America toward fascism. What Gross sees is not a conspiracy on the part of the ruling class but a 'powerful logic of events,' leading to 'concentrated, unscrupulous, repressive and militaristic control…to conserve the profits of the ultra rich, the corporate overseers and the (military and civilian) brass to squelch the rights and liberties of people at home and abroad.'
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