Description: Examines the link between extreme fitness culture and the far right, showing how preoccupations with muscularity converge with political logics of white nationalism and late fascism.
Review Quotes: "Hard Right reveals fresh insights on how masculinity discourses shape who and what is considered valuable. As scholars continue to interrogate the new ways that autocratic and fascist goals gather support, this book makes plain the motivations for those pursuits and how rhetoric facilitates such purposes." --Leslie A. Hahner, coauthor of Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right