This book makes a very positive contribution to the literature on fascism and tackles this much-written about topic from a fresh and interesting angle. Cogent and convincing in its argument, original in its interpretations, and carefully crafted and sophisticated in its style, Aristotle Kallis has produced an excellent monograph.

Lisa Pine, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK

In a world where “fascism” is constantly trivialized by application to any form of unpalatable form of authoritarianism, reading Iconic Fascism is a salutary and sobering experience. This scholarly but highly accessible book confronts the human catastrophes unleashed two generations ago by an ideology that makes the systematic destruction of demonized human lives and their habitats the precondition for making a nation “great again”. In doing so it should help dispel the widespread tendency to confuse even radical right-wing populism's more appalling perversions of democracy with the “real thing”.

Roger Griffin, Professor of Modern History and Political Theorist, Oxford Brookes University, UK