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American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party Hardcover – May 20, 1999

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The founder of the American Nazi party and its leader until he was murdered in 1967,George Lincoln Rockwell was one of the most significant extremist strategists and ideologists of the postwar period. His influence has only increased since his death.
 
A powerful catalyst and innovator, Rockwell broadened his constituency beyond the core Radical Right by articulating White Power politics in terms that were subsequently appropriated by the one-time klansman David Duke. He played a major role in developing Holocaust revisionism, now an orthodoxy of the Far Right. He also helped politicize Christian Identity, America's most influential right-wing religious movement, and welded together an international organization of neo-Nazis. All of these extremist movements continue to thrive today.
 
Frederick Simonelli's biography of this powerful and enigmatic figure draws on primary sources of extraordinary depth, including declassified FBI files and manuscripts and other materials held by Rockwell's family and associates. The first objective assessment of the American Nazi party and an authoritative study of the roots of neo-nazism, neo-fascism, and White Power extremism in postwar America, American Fuehrer is shocking and absorbing reading.
 
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    University of Illinois Press
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    May 20, 1999
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  6. ISBN-10
    0252022858
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    978-0252022852
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His father was a popular vaudeville comedian and humor columnist. His mother was a graceful, delicate toe dancer. George Lincoln Rockwell achieved notoriety through an altogether different kind of showmanship, as the founder and leader of the American Nazi Party, who vowed to exterminate Jews, blacks and homosexuals. Although his neofascist crusade, at its height, attracted perhaps a few hundred hardcore followers, the Illinois-born demagogue was no mere powerless gadfly or eccentric crank, as Simonelli, who teaches at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, demonstrates in his chilling biography. Rockwell's Holocaust denial bequeathed a propaganda tool to racist right-wing extremists who seek to mute the moral lessons of Hitler's crimes. His links to the Christian Identity movement provided a camouflage for a later generation of white supremacists seeking theological justification for their hatreds. Moreover, in the months before he was assassinated in 1967 (possibly as the result of a conspiracy within his own party, as Simonelli reveals), Rockwell attempted to "sanitize" his anti-Semitism and racism for mass consumption. He thereby set an example, according to Simonelli, for David Duke, a Rockwell disciple. Rockwell's psyche remains elusive: the beatings he suffered from the aunt who raised him and the coldness of his domineering father only begin to account for his warped beliefs. Even so, this excellent biography sounds a timely warning against complacency toward contemporary extremists. Photos. (July)

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The founder of the American Nazi party and its leader until he was murdered in 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell was one of the most significant extremist strategists and ideologists of the postwar period. His influence has only increased since his death. A powerful catalyst and innovator, Rockwell broadened his constituency beyond the core Radical Right by articulating White Power politics in terms that were subsequently appropriated by the one-time klansman David Duke. He played a major role in developing Holocaust revisionism, now an orthodoxy of the Far Right. He also helped politicize Christian Identity, America's most influential right-wing religious movement, and welded together an international organization of neo-Nazis. All of these extremist movements continue to thrive today. Frederick Simonelli's biography of this powerful and enigmatic figure draws on primary sources of extraordinary depth, including declassified FBI files and manuscripts and other materials held by Rockwell's family and associates.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; First Edition (May 20, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 206 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252022858
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252022852
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.18 x 6.29 x 0.83 inches
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J. Carnival
5.0 out of 5 stars Engulfing from the Opening Page. Great book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2007
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I enjoyed this book and felt it was a fair treatment of the subject. Dr. Simonelli is a highly respected historian and can be seen providing insight on networks such as The History Channel.

I found that many of the other negative comments on this web site appeared bias to begin with.

I would suggest reading the book and treating it as what it was meant to be. Overall 5 stars.
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Robert Frick
2.0 out of 5 stars Just curious
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2023
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Curious what the mainstream story of this guy is.
I would recommend looking into the alternative history
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not balanced in any sense
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
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Unsurprisingly, this book is unbalanced. It's indispensable because of the breadth of information, but it's a shame that academia has only produced this work and none other (as far as Rockwell biographies are concerned). Take this book with a grain of salt, and read Rockwell's autobiography for yourself, in addition to his voluminous lectures available on YouTube.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2017
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This book ought to be required reading for American public schools.
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Kurt Harding
3.0 out of 5 stars The Fuehrer Who Never Was
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2008
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I am in the collectibles business, so when someone at my booth at a trade show says they are into Rockwell, I can always get laughs from other customers by asking "Norman or George Lincoln?" That alone testifies to the mark that George Lincoln Rockwell and his American Nazi Party, though small in numbers, left on modern American political history.
American Fuehrer purports to be the first biography of Rockwell written by someone who is not a Rockwell supporter and overall, it is a pretty good one. Though author Frederick J Simonelli goes to frequent pains to remind the reader that he finds Rockwell's views to be loathsome, he also is careful not to fall into the trap of constant name-calling that ensnares many other authors who write about the so-called racist right.
In this book, the reader learns about Rockwell's life before he became a Nazi and a racialist and in so learning can form his own theories about why Rockwell turned to Hitler for inspiration. One also learns about the difficulties Rockwell encountered using the image of Hitler and the symbolism of the Nazis as a recruiting tool so soon after we fought them in World War II. Unlike Hitler, Rockwell found it difficult to attract anything but the rabble to his cause. Competent organizers and administrators were few and far between. But one thing is clear, Rockwell thrived on nearly universal opprobrium.
I was only twelve years old when Rockwell was assassinated but remember seeing Nazis around in San Diego and the Nazi headquarters in El Monte later when I was a teenager. I saw their pamphlets, newspapers, and even the "Diary of Ann Fink" mentioned by the author that uniformed Nazis used to leave in public places. Reading these items gave a lot of teens the same frisson of anti-establishment glee they got when reading the ubiquitous LA Free Press or the Berkeley Barb. Few of them were motivated to anything beyond snickering at their sheer audacity. But reading American Fuehrer should motivate you to see George Lincoln Rockwell, The Fuehrer Who Never Was, not just as the bit player he was always destined to be but also as a man whose ideas had far greater influence beyond the grave than they ever had in his lifetime.
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Cwn_Annwn
3.0 out of 5 stars Biased
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2007
Not that the discerning reader can't get a lot of good info out of this book but it appears to me that the author went out of his way to portray Rockwell as a loser, a misfit, and someone in need of psychiatric care.

Simonelli somehow managed to get access to much of Rockwells personal correspondences but it seems that he selectively used them to point out instances of turmoil and sadness in Rockwells state of mind. He especially uses Rockwells feelings of despondency about his wife, who was the daughter of the Icelandic ambassador to America, leaving him and taking their children back to Iceland with her. I don't think its a particuarly radical statement for me to say that feeling sad about losing your wife and kids is a sign of being normal. Simonelli somehow manages to twist this into an example of Rockwell being an insane loser.

The other bio of Rockwell, Hate by William Schmaltz, is a far superior and unbiased account of GLR's life and highly recomended. However I can only recomend American Fuehrer to somebody who is researching Rockwell and knows how to read with a discerning eye.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Psychotic Abused Child Blames Grows Up To Become Fuehrer
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2004
Rockwell is another in a long line of haunted personalities mining the hatred of Jews for his own benefit. The same psychosis, blame the Jews and the Blacks for all the abuse he received as a child. Instead of facing his psychological problems, Rockwell scapecoated them and ended up being killed by one of this own supporters, a small band of latent homosexuals, who channelled all their fears and rage into hatred of minorities.
But what is interesting is the man before me charges that the Jews control the media, and distort the news. How do they do this? Do they meet at a Chinese restaurant every Sunday to give out orders in controlling the world. Who is the top Jew? Larry King, Barbara Walters, Noam Chomsky, or maybe Michael Moore, who is really a Jew hiding his identity.
If the Jews control the media, why is it everytime I pick up a paper I see favorable pictures of Palestinians, and unfavorable pictures of Israelis, even when they are innocent civilians riding in buses and eating in restaurants?
Yes, there are a lot of Jews in the media, but when does that become a crime, and what type of personality, sees all Jews acting in a conspiracy?
This is the same type of person who feels humiliated by anyone who is more talented and competent than him, a perpetually impotent type of personality who is looking for a rationale for his failure in life and love.
The great crime of the Jew is that he has been successful, and to the perpetually impotent personality this is something that can never be forgiven. Personalities like Rockwell perpetually exploit this hatred, which is basically a hatred of life and love in all its forms. Their true focus is not the Jew per se, but all talent, all ability, all life-positive action.
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Mafalda
1.0 out of 5 stars George Lincoln Rockwell un fuehrer américain
Reviewed in France on May 29, 2010
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Ce livre est une biographie de George Lincoln Rockwell qui naquit le 9 mars 1918 à Bloomington dans l'illinois, ainé d'une famille de trois enfants et qui l'or de la deuxieme guerre mondiale se distingua par son courage comme pilote d'avions de combat. Le 8 mars 1959 il fonda l'American Nazi Parti qui fut aprés guerre le premier parti d'ultra droite vraiment structuré aux Etats-Unis. il se maria une premiere fois en avril 1943 avec Judith Aultman qui lui donna trois filles et dont il divorça aprés avoir connu alors qu'il etait stationné avec l'armée americaine en Islande, Thora Hallggrimsson qui aprés lui avoir donné quatre enfants le laissa en lui demendant de choisir entre elle et la politique. Il choisi la politique et quelle politique:la propagation de l'ideologie nazi en amérique. Il devait d'ailleurs le payer de sa vie le vendredi 25 aout 1967 un peu aprés midi tandis-qu'il deplaçait sa chevrolet blanche et bleue sur le parking des Dominions Hills à Arlington, un ancien de ses amis John Patler un americain d'origine grecque dont le vrai nom etait Patsalos mais qui changea celui-ci en Patler parce-que comme cela il ressemblait plus à celui de Hitler et qui pourtant avait été l'un des tout premier à adhérer à son mouvement lui tira deux balles de revolver une dans la tete, une dans le torse.
Certain ont dit par la suite qu'il fut en fait un bouc émissaire et que Rockwell aurait été assassiné sur ordre du FBI parce-qu'il devenait trop genant.
Pourtant lorsque en novembre 1965 Rockwell se presenta aux élections pour etre élu gouverneur de Virginie il n'obtint que 5 730 suffrages soit environ un et demi pour cent des voix.
Il est connu pour avoir fondé avec Colin Jordan leader neo-nazi britannique la world union of national socialist WUNS, il a aussi beaucoup écrit et ses deux ouvrages les plus connus sont This time, the world qui est son autobiographie et White power qui sont des references tres lus dans les milieux ultra-nationalistes américains.

Ce livre est moins complet que celui de William H Schmaltz Hate George Lincoln Rockwell and the american nazi party qui est aussi une biographie de Rockwell, c'est pour cela que je ne mets qu'une etoile. A noter que les deux livres sont en anglais.
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