Author

Books by Robert O. Paxton

Robert O. Paxton is a professor emeritus of social science at Columbia University and one of the foremost historians of fascism and Vichy France. His earlier book Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order (1972) fundamentally revised the historical understanding of French collaboration during the German occupation. He has written widely on European fascism, authoritarianism, and the politics of the twentieth century. The Anatomy of Fascism, published in 2004, draws on five decades of comparative historical research to offer what many scholars regard as the most rigorous and readable account of fascism as a political phenomenon.