| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kirsten Fermaglich. American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965. (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life.) Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 252. $29.95.

There was a time in our national life, less constricted by pressures to conform to the civic religion of American "exceptionalism," and before the orthodoxies of identity politics gained predominance, when social critics felt free to plumb the meaning of Adolf Hitler's destruction of the Jews during World War II for its universal lessons. Kirsten Fermaglich argues that there was a moment of relative openness and liberal reform optimism, a period she identifies as "the turn of the 60s," catalyzed in its beginnings by Little Rock and Sputnik, when Cold War rigidity relaxed and it was considered legitimate to use the (still recent) experience of Nazi mass murder to investigate the pathologies of American "mass" society.

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