| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965. By Kirsten Fermaglich. (Lebanon: Brandeis University Press, 2006. xiv, 252 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-58465-548-8.)

American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares is a well-written, fully documented study of how Holocaust consciousness came to America. Kirsten Fermaglich sees the liberal seed years at the turn of the sixties serving as the portal for a liberal critique of the American experience based on analogies drawn from the Holocaust. The swing to the right in American politics after 1965 led to a questioning of the scholarship of those who used that analog and sometimes to a rejection of their findings.

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