The perfect fascist : a story of love, power, and morality in Mussolini's Italy /
Through the story of one exemplary fascist, a war hero turned commander of Mussolini's Black Shirts, the award-winning author of How Fascism Ruled Women reveals how the personal became political in the fascist quest for manhood and power. When Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini's handsome politica...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Strive: The soldier
- The Great War
- Mutilated victory
- Enter the diva
- In Mussolini's camp
- On the march
- Little Man, What Now?
- Part II. Grasp: Eros and Thanatos
- Conquering the ice princess
- A fascist wedding
- Mission to Benghazi
- Insurgency and betrayal
- A matter of honor
- Part III. Overreach: To kill a marriage
- Commanding the Blackshirts
- In the grip of the Inquisition.
- In war, fullness
- In love, tribulations
- In empire, hollow glory
- Part IV. Fall: The rout
- Comeuppance
- Last man standing
- A bearded corpse
- I suffer and I wait
- Penance.