Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American historian and cultural critic. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders.[1] Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Ruth Ben-Ghiat en 2020
Born17 April 1960  (age 61)
OccupationHistorian, university teacher, academic 
Employer
Awards
Websitehttps://ruthbenghiat.com/ 

Biography

Born in the United States to an Israel-born Sephardi father and a Scottish mother, she grew up in Pacific Palisades, California.[2][3] She graduated in History at UCLA and obtained a PhD in comparative history at Brandeis University. A member of the American Historical Association since 1990,[4] she is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University.[5] She regularly writes for "CNN", The Atlantic and The Huffington Post.[6]

Description of Strongmen

Ours is the age of the strongman, of heads of state who damage or destroy democracy use masculinity as a tool of political legitimacy, and promise law and order rule – and then legitimize lawless behavior by financial, sexual, and other predators. Covering a century of tyranny, this book examines how authoritarians use propaganda, virility, corruption, and violence to stay in power, and how they can be opposed.[7]

Works
  • Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2001). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.[8]
  • Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2015). Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.[9]
  • Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2020). Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present. W.W. Norton & Company.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

References
  1. Kwong, Matt (5 June 2018). "Trump muses about pardoning himself. Experts on authoritarianism are horrified". CBC.
  2. Alexander, Neta (2 April 2017). "The Mistake People Make Regarding Trump's Middle-of-the-night Tweets". Haaretz.
  3. Blitzer, Jonathan (November 4, 2016). "A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That's Familiar with Trump". The New Yorker.
  4. Keough, Matthew (13 August 2014). "AHA Member Spotlight: Ruth Ben-Ghiat".
  5. "Ruth Ben-Ghiat". NYU Arts & Science. New York University. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  6. DeVega, Chauncey (12 June 2017). "Ruth Ben-Ghiat on how Trump is already using "fascist tactics"". Salon.
  7. Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (10 November 2020). "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present".
  8. Zamponi, Simonetta Falasca (2002). "Ruth Ben Ghiat. Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. (Studies on the History of Society and culture, number 42.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. x, 317. $45.00". The American Historical Review. 107 (2): 653–654. doi:10.1086/ahr/107.2.653.
  9. Landy, Marcia (2016). "Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 33 (2): 176–180. doi:10.1080/10509208.2015.1109579. S2CID 191937183.
  10. Lavin, Talia (December 24, 2020). "Corruption, violence and toxic masculinity: What strongmen like Trump have in common". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  11. Fukuyama, Francis (2020-11-10). "Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  12. Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-12-11). "'Strongmen' Review: Nostalgia, Virility and Power". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  13. "Nonfiction Book Review: Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Norton, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-324-00154-6". Publishers Weekly. September 17, 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  14. Kaiser, Charles (2020-11-26). "Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  15. Shribman, David M. (November 5, 2020). "Quite a cast of characters in Ruth Ben-Ghiat's 'Strongmen,' a brutal tour of the tyrannies of the last hundred years". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  16. Finchelstein, Federico (2020-11-03). "It's Already Happening Here". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
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