My Autobiography (Mussolini book)
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My Autobiography is a book by
Luigi Barzini, Jr., served as the book's ghostwriter
.
Background
Mussolini dictated parts of the text to his brother Arnaldo Mussolini who handed the manuscripts, together with other material supplied by Mussolini's lover
Luigi Barzini, Jr. as a ghostwriter for the autobiography, which was mainly aimed at readers in the U.S. It was a paid work of propaganda and remained unpublished in Italy until 1971. It was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post (May to Oct. 1928) and then published as a book, with a foreword, by Child. In this preface, he wrote:
In our time it may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to those of Mussolini.
— Richard Washburn Child[1]
Publishing history
The autobiography was first published as a book in
Il Duce
, bringing it up to the year 1939".
ISBN 0-306-80864-1) combining My Autobiography with The Fall of Mussolini: His Own Story
(1948).
Contents
- Foreword
- A Sulphurous Land
- My Father
- The Book of Life (in some editions the first three chapters are one titled: Youth)
- War and Its Effect upon a Man
- Ashes and Embers
- The Death Struggle of a Worn out Democracy
- The Garden of Fascism
- Toward Conquest of Power
- Thus We Took Rome
- Five Years of Government
- New Paths
- The Fascist State and the Future
- En Route
- Index
References
Wikiquote has quotations related to My Autobiography (Mussolini book).
- ^ Mussolini, Benito (1928). My Autobiography. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. xi.
- D'Agostino, Peter R. Rome in America. Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risoregimento to Fascism. U of North Carolina P, 2004.
- Diggins, John P. Mussolini and Fascism: the View from America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1972.
- Fermi, Laura. Mussolini. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1961.
- Lindberg, Kathryn V. "Mass Circulation versus The Masses. Covering the Modern Magazine Scene." In: National Identities - Postamerican Narratives. Ed. Donald E. Pease. Duke UP, 1994, 279-310.