'Through astute research and groundbreaking analysis, this book reveals the post-fascist networks that shaped a conservative brand of modernization across the Atlantic. Kressel shows how technocratic authoritarianism emerged and persists in contemporary democracies in Argentina, Chile and Spain. It offers a new historical perspective on the roots of neoliberalism.' Pablo Piccato, Columbia University 'In his fascinating exercise in transnational history, Daniel Kressel illustrates how technocratic intellectuals and fascist-era authoritarian models were transformed and adapted in the Ibero-Latin American world in the second half of the 20th century, studying their circulation between Francoist Spain, the Argentine dictatorship of Ongania, and the Chilean dictatorship of General Pinochet.' António Costa Pinto, author of Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism: The Corporatist Wave 'A nuanced and bracing excavation of fascism's afterlives in the Spanish-speaking world. Chronicling how right-wing thinkers worked to promote an alternative authoritarian modernity envisioned as a spiritual crusade against Enlightenment values, Daniel Kressel offers important context for the contemporary global wave of anti-democratic politics.' Kirsten Weld, Harvard University
