Table of Contents:
  • America, Italy, and the rise of Mussolini
  • Arcadia and Mulberry street: two Italys in the American mind on the eve of fascism
  • Enter II Duce
  • American journalists and Mussolini
  • Mussolini as American hero
  • American society and fascism
  • Italian-Americans and Mussolini's Italy
  • The Italian-American anti-fascist resistance
  • Business and labor
  • Church windows
  • three faces for fascism: the American right, left, and center
  • Politics and culture
  • The view from Washington
  • Fascism at war
  • The Ethiopian war
  • The eclipse of fascism: Nazi Germany, Mussolini and the coming of world war II
  • Liberation: American ideals and Italian realities
  • Italian-Americans and the fuorusciti in world war II
  • The rediscovery of Italy
  • American intellectuals and fascism: the ambiguous legacy.