Death to Fascism

John P. Enyeart is professor and chair of the Department of History at Bucknell University. He is the author of The Quest for “Just and Pure Law”: Rocky Mountain Workers and American Social Democracy, 1870–1924.

"Enyeart's work comes at a moment in which forging the multiracial, multiethnic, working-class-based, transnational antifascist movement Adamic championed is urgently necessary. . . . Death to Fascism is both praiseworthy and relevant to scholars and organizers alike." --North Median Review "Enyeart weaves together the questions of Americanism, immigration, antifascism, and foreign policy in a coherent and engaging fashion. . . . Death to Fascism is a well-written and engaging piece of historical research." --Social History "The objective of his book, Enyeart says, is 'recovering Adamic’s legacy so that we can better understand [that] our antifascist past is vital to our future' (p. 161). His well-researched book largely achieves its objective." --Journal of Cold War Studies "In this well-researched, original work, Enyeart establishes the importance of Louis Adamic as an influential political and cultural figure of the period between the 1930s and the early Cold War. Adamic's life reveals the presence of a robust anticolonialist and antifascist strand of thinking in the often-overlooked early twentieth century immigrant/ethnic Left."--John Bukowczyk, editor of Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship "Because Enyeart has captured the life and work of an antifascist democratic radical who continues to resonate today, Death to Fascism is a major accomplishment. " --H-Net Reviews "Enyeart knows his subject intimately and passionately." --TruthDig "This is a very important book. It challenges the emphasis in so much recent radical history on the centrality--for good or ill--of the Communist Party, and sees the broader left, of which Adamic was a leading member, as central. Readers will come to care about Adamic, his struggles, and even his contradictions."--David Roediger, author of Class, Race, and Marxism