Daniel Gasman

Daniel E. Gasman (1933 – 19 December 2012)^[1] was an American historian at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York.^[2] He earned his PhD from University of Chicago in modern intellectual history.^[2] His most famous book is The Scientific Origins of National Socialism,^[3] which has been both praised^[4][5][6] and criticized^[7] by scholars. His second book, Haeckel’'s Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology, has been reviewed in journals.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Books

• The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League (London and New York: Macdonald and American Elsevier, 1971) ISBN 0444196641
• Haeckel’'s Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology (New York: Peter Lang: 1998) ISBN 0820441082