Given the important role that the Right has played in Latin America, it is remarkable how little scholarly attention has been paid to it. Sandra McGee Deutsch’s book on the extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in the first half of the twentieth century contributes greatly to filling this void. This thorough and well-documented study offers the reader a clear and compelling portrait of the history, ideology, programs, membership, impact, and legacy of the extreme right in the ABC nations. The book begins in the late 1800s in order to establish the evolution and continuity, along with the discontinuities, in the extreme Right’s ideology and organizations in each nation. Because they reached their zenith in the 1930s, the book focuses on the three dominant fascist parties of the period: the Movimiento Nacional Socialista in Chile, the Argentine Nacionalismo, and the Ação Integralista Brasileira. The comparative nature of this study...

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