The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 by Joseph Kelly

An eye-opening narrative history that traces American fascism's roots back to the antebellum South. Joseph Kelly examines how elite southern planters planted the seeds of fascist ideology through their insistence that slavery would naturally disappear, and how that ideology evolved into Anglo-Saxon nationalism and Jim Crow.

• Hardcover, 400 pages
• On sale July 21, 2026