Fellow Spotlight: William Hitchcock
William Hitchcock is working on a book entitled “A Shadow over the World: American Democracy in the Age of Fascism, 1922-1941.”
Publication 15 Sep 2025
William Hitchcock is the James Madison Professor of History and Director of Governing America in a Global Era at the University of Virginia. At the Academy, he is working on his fifth single-authored book, A Shadow over the World: American Democracy in the Age of Fascism, 1922-1941.
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