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Ezra Klein highlighted it as a phenomenal book about Mussolini's chief enforcer and his Jewish American wife, using their story to explore why people became fascists.
The second book I'd like to recommend is Victoria de Grazia's The Perfect Fascist. Victoria de Grazia is a historian at Columbia and she's specialized across her entire career in Italy and she's writt...
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Ezra Klein highlighted it as a phenomenal book about Mussolini's chief enforcer and his Jewish American wife, using their story to explore why people became fascists.
The second book I'd like to recommend is Victoria de Grazia's The Perfect Fascist. Victoria de Grazia is a historian at Columbia and she's specialized across her entire career in Italy and she's written this phenomenal book which is about one of the main henchmen in Mussolini's regime, the head of Mussolini's black shirts in fascist Italy and his wife who was a Jewish American opera singer from the Upper West Side of New York City. She married him and it's a story about their marriage but also about why people became fascists and how that affected people in their private lives and the public responsibilities of being in this authoritarian regime versus people's private doubts and idiosyncrasies.