The United States has been identified with liberal principles for much of its history, but the nation has also nurtured deep pockets of authoritarianism. With a broad angle of vision across the past century, McGirr teases out the leaders, movements, and regional strong-holds of American authoritarianism. She excavates the historical conditions that have fueled authoritarian movements and argues that the growing power of these political tendencies within the Republican Party pose an urgent peril to the United States identity as a pluralist and multiracial democracy.

https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roots-american-authoritarianism