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Mussolini
Historian Jasper Ridley brings us this comprehensive biography of the man who invented fascism: Benito Mussolini, widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the twentieth century. A complex and contradictory figure, Mussolini won the fascination of many statesmen and writers--and their wives. From his early years raised in the traditions of revolutionary Italian Socialism to his violent execution by Communist partisans at the end of World War II, we watch Mussolini's power ambitions erode his political ideals as he evolves from brilliant orator and journalist to empire-building dictator enforcing his authority by death squads. A man initially admired by such Western luminaries as Winston Churchill, or underestimated as a posturing buffoon, he eventually showed his true colors as a racist and persecutor of the Jews. He sought equal stature with Hitler, but his alliance with him would prove disastrous.
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- "Historian Jasper Ridley brings us this comprehensive biography of the man who invented fascism: Benito Mussolini, widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the twentieth century. A complex and contradictory figure, Mussolini won the fascination of many statesmen and writers--and their wives. From his early years raised in the traditions of revolutionary Italian Socialism to his violent execution by Communist partisans at the end of World War II, we watch Mussolini's power ambitions erode his political ideals as he evolves from brilliant orator and journalist to empire-building dictator enforcing his authority by death squads. A man initially admired by such Western luminaries as Winston Churchill, or underestimated as a posturing buffoon, he eventually showed his true colors as a racist and persecutor of the Jews. He sought equal stature with Hitler, but his alliance with him would prove disastrous."@en
- "This biography of Benito Mussolini describes his upbringing in the violent society of nineteenth-century Italy and the revolutionary traditions of Italian Socialism; his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives; his imprisonment in Switzerland as an Anarchist tramp. He had numerous love affairs, and developed into a brilliant orator and journalist. He founded the Fascist Party, and ordered his squads to burn down the party offices of the Communists and Socialists during four years of virtual civil war. Becoming Prime Minister and dictator after the March on Rome, he showed his true colors as an empire-builder and eventually a racist and persecutor of the Jews. Mussolini was not the ridiculous buffoon that he is often depicted, but a very able politician who knew how to ride two horses at the same time, and while inculcating into the Italians the glories of war, cooperated peacefully with foreign governments."@en
- "Widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the twentieth century, Benito Mussolini, the man who invented fascism, won the fascination of many statesmen and writers -- and their wives. Watch Mussolini's power ambitions erode his political ideals as he evolves from brilliant orator to ruthless dictator."@en
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