'Fascism: A Warning' review: 'An addictive and widely informative read for anyone with a thirst for 20th century history'

Politics: Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright, Harper Collins, €13.99

Madeleine Albright lost three of her four grandparents and numerous aunts and uncles in the Holocaust during World War II

JP O'Malley

The word fascist is so widely misused in the lexicon of modern political ideals that it has come to represent - for both left and right - a loaded histrionic label used predominately for the purpose of identity politics.

Given the implications actual fascism can have on society, we ought to de-construct the term with rigorous analysis. Fascism: A Warning attempts to do just that. In the opening pages of a fascinating part biography, part history, part candid political memoir, former US Secretary of State and US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright asks a series of fundamental questions.