Reviews for Mussolini

The average rating for Mussolini based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-16 00:00:00 Julie Ford library book. A fairly recent biography. I read this because of my interest in the development of an authoritarian/fascist government through populism. It really was fascinating to see how very popular and approved Mussolini was in the beginning, as he helped bring order and prosperity to a chaotic and struggling Italy following WWI. It was sobering to see how he gradually became seduced by his own image and made a series of irreversible errors, including Ethiopia, Somalia, and finally, becoming allied with Hitler and Nazi Germany.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-10-20 00:00:00 William Bitting I just got bored with it. The book seems less biography than social history, and more economic and political history than anything. Makes for a very dry treatment of an interesting era.