Alpers, Benjamin Leontief. Dictators, democracy, and American public culture [electronic resource] : envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s. Retrieved from http://catalog.yln.info/uhtbin/cgisirsi/DSNBnL7GvK/YLN/123570010/123.
The author of this book, Benjamin Alpers, dicusses Americans' understanding of dictatorships from the 1920s throughout the Cold War. Particularly for my essay topic, he discusses totalitarianism and how it became an image against which a view of tolerance developed. He then goes on to talk about how totalitarianism became the foundation for the start of the Cold War and how many dictators throughout history used this form of government to lead their country. I am going to use this source in my paper to describe how totalitarianism has affected our country and how we may be headed for a totalitarian government in the future.
d'Entreves, Maurizio Passerin, "Hannah Arendt", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/arendt/.
This source would be useful in my paper because it is about Hannah Arendt, a well-known philosopher who lived during in Germany during Nazi Germany, and was forced to leave in 1933. In her book, Origins of Totalitarianism, she talks about her results of a major study of the Nazi and Stalinist regime, and how it affected the world thereafter, and even today. The website goes on to talk about her other famous work, and how her approach on totalitarianism changed the way that communities viewed this government. I think this is a credible source for my paper because this site makes sure that each entry is up to date and that it comes from a group of experts in a specific field.
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