Mussolini
Edition: First Edition
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Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
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A landmark work of political biography, Denis Mack Smith's Mussolini presents a rigorous and unflinching portrait of one of the twentieth century's most destructive dictators. Drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Smith chronicles the rise of Benito Mussolini from a provincial agitator and socialist journalist to the founder of Italian Fascism and self-styled Il Duce of a nation he led to ruin. With incisive, authoritative prose, Smith argues that Mussolini was less an ideological visionary than a consummate opportunist — a master of propaganda and political theater whose regime was built on myth, violence, and calculated deception. The biography details the catastrophic consequences of his alliance with Hitler, his disastrous military campaigns, and the ultimate collapse of the Fascist state, offering a sobering account of how charisma and demagoguery can corrupt an entire society. Widely regarded as the definitive English-language study of its subject, Mussolini remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins and mechanics of twentieth-century totalitarianism.
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of political biography, Denis Mack Smith's Mussolini presents a rigorous and unflinching portrait of one of the twentieth century's most destructive dictators. Drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Smith chronicles the rise of Benito Mussolini from a provincial agitator and socialist journalist to the founder of Italian Fascism and self-styled Il Duce of a nation he led to ruin. With incisive, authoritative prose, Smith argues that Mussolini was less an ideological visionary than a consummate opportunist — a master of propaganda and political theater whose regime was built on myth, violence, and calculated deception. The biography details the catastrophic consequences of his alliance with Hitler, his disastrous military campaigns, and the ultimate collapse of the Fascist state, offering a sobering account of how charisma and demagoguery can corrupt an entire society. Widely regarded as the definitive English-language study of its subject, Mussolini remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins and mechanics of twentieth-century totalitarianism.
