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Books by Federico Finchelstein

Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.

Dr. Finchelstein has taught at the History Department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University. Finchelstein is Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR.

Professor Finchelstein is the author of seven books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish.

Professor’s Finchelstein new book is: A Brief History of Fascist Lies (University of California Press, 2020).

He is also the author of the recent book: : From Fascism to Populism in History (University of California Press, 2017 & 2019 with new preface). (Spanish edition, Taurus, 2018; Italian edition, Donzelli, 2019: Turkish edition Iletisim Yayinlari, 2019: Portuguese edition, 2019.)

Dr. Finchelstein’s previous books in English include, The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Transatlantic Fascism (Duke University Press, 2010).

Finchelstein’s books have received 66 reviews in academic journals. They were also reviewed in newspapers and media such as The Washington Post, Financial Times, Clarín, La Nación & La Voz del Interior (Argentina), La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire, Messaggero, Il Manifesto (Italy), Milenio (Mexico), El País and ABC (Spain) and El País (Uruguay).

Professor Finchelstein has published more than fifty academic articles and reviews on Fascism, Latin American Populism, the relationship between history and political theory, the Cold War, Genocide and Antisemitism in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian publications, both in collective books and specialized peer review journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Brazil, and Argentina. He has been a contributor to major American, European, and Latin American newspapers and media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Clarin (Argentina), Agenda Publica/El Pais (Spain), Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Politico, Mediapart (France), The Guardian (UK), CNN, Foreign Policy, Reuters, El Diario (NYC).