The Apprentice, Trump's Celebrity Presidency, and the Road to American Fascism, from THE NEW POWER ELITE by Heather Gautney
The reality-show he starred in was critical to Trump's political success. It was a vehicle for rescuing his brand from a series of business failures; and it was the means through which he presented himself, on a mass scale, as an executive and dealmaker-in-chief.
THE NEW POWER ELITE by Heather Gautney (Oxford)
C. Wright Mills’s The Power Elite Still Speaks to Today’s America
Knowing that inequality and powerlessness helped produce European fascism, C. Wright Mills exposed postwar American power and warned of an authoritarian turn in The Power Elite. The book speaks to our own moment of inequality and right-wing anger.
"By the time you finish The New Power Elite [by Heather Gautney], you might be inclined to a) throw up, b) throw the bums out, or c) throw up your hands and move to an egalitarian socialist country like Sweden. You'll wonder how long the excesses of American capitalism can continue at home and abroad before the masses wake up, decide the music has already stopped and demand radical change."
William Clark
