Seldes’ “Saw­dust Cae­sar” was the work that turned me on to anti-fas­cist writ­ing. Doc­u­men­ta­tion of Mus­solin­i’s cor­rup­tion remain scarce, and this makes Seldes’ work that much more impor­tant, in addi­tion to the fact that much of Seldes’ source mate­r­i­al was destroyed by those that hoped to shroud Mus­solin­i’s true char­ac­ter. It’s out of print, so far as I know, but should be read by all that have an inter­est in an accu­rate account of Ben­i­to’s rise to pow­er and his style of gov­er­nance in the build up to World War II.

Thank you, Mr. Emory, for car­ry­ing on Seldes’ lega­cy of expos­ing the true nature of fas­cism.

@Jason Lee–

Thanks for the kind words. I believe that Seldes’ books are in the legal pos­ses­sion of his fam­i­ly.

“Saw­dust Cae­sar” is excerpt­ed at length in Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Show M42–“Uncle Sam and Il Duce.”

https://spitfirelist.com/miscellaneous-archives/shows-m31%E2%80%94m62/

Best,

Dave

Two of George Seldes’ very use­ful works on Anglo-Amer­i­can cor­po­ratism and its activ­i­ties in impos­ing fas­cism are back in print at Pro­gres­sive Press in Joshua Tree, Cal­i­for­nia.

Facts and Fas­cism is his wartime decon­struc­tion and expose of nation­al social­ism and its financiers and fomen­tors in New York, Lon­don, and else­where: http://www.progressivepress.com/book-listing/facts-and-fascism

1,000 Amer­i­cans Who Rule the USA pro­vides use­ful infor­ma­tion on fam­i­ly own­er­ship and cor­po­rate con­trol cir­ca 1947. These fam­i­lies and cor­po­rate suc­ces­sions are still deter­mi­na­tive today: http://www.progressivepress.com/book-listing/1000-americans-who-rule-usa

Best, Clark

@Clark Matthews–

Thanks SO MUCH for the heads up!

Best,

Dave

Of note to inter­est­ed read­ers:

Seldes’ “Facts and Fas­cism” is avail­able on the Inter­net Archive web­site:

https://archive.org/details/FactsAndFascism

In addi­tion, it appears all vol­umes of his newslet­ter “In Fact” are also avail­able:

https://archive.org/details/InFactVolume1IssueNumber1

Inter­est­ed read­ers should do a search of his name on the Archive web­site and you will turn up addi­tion­al, cru­cial works by this impor­tant author. It may be his fam­i­ly that has made these avail­able, and thank­ful­ly so.

Hap­py read­ing!

@Sampson–

Thanks so much for this valu­able con­tri­bu­tion!

Being what in Boston they would call “an Old Faht,” it is fas­ci­nat­ing to see the recent medi­um of the inter­net sup­ple­ment­ing (obvi­at­ing, ren­der­ing obso­les­cent?) what I have attempt­ed to do over the decades.

Way back in the late ’70s, I hit on the idea of read­ing rare and/or out-of-print mate­r­i­al on the air, so that lis­ten­ers might tape the pro­grams and use the result­ing cas­sette tapes as an audio study resource.

Now Seldes’ sem­i­nal work can be read on the inter­net.

Good show, Samp­son. (Beware the charms of the deceiv­ing Delilah!)

Best,

Dave