{"product_id":"fascist-voices-9780099539896","title":"Fascist Voices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Duggan is Professor of Italian History at Reading University. He has written several books on modern Italian history, including \u003ci\u003eHistory of Sicil\u003c\/i\u003ey, with M. I. Finley and D. Mack Smith, \u003ci\u003eFascism and the Mafia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA concise history of Italy\u003c\/i\u003e  and \u003ci\u003eFrancesco Crispi: From Nation to Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Force of Destiny: a History of Italy Since 1796\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating exploration of the letters that ‘ordinary’ Italians who supported fascism wrote to Mussolini in the 1920s and 1930s * Glasgow Sunday Herald *\u003cbr\u003eThis original, revealing and disturbing book provides a grassroots view of fascist Italy * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eDuggan’s superbly researched book uncovers the nasty reality of [Mussolini’s] regime and demonstrates that there was a disturbing symbiotic relationship between fascism and the Catholic Church * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eIn his magnificent new book, a pathbreaking study that everyone interested in Fascism, or in Italy past and present, should read, Christopher Duggan fills the gap by examining a wide range of diaries… This enables Duggan to deliver not merely a detailed account of popular attitudes towards the regime, but, far more, a general history of Fascism that for the first time treats it, not as a tyranny that allowed ordinary Italians no possibility of expressing themselves freely, nor as the brutal dictatorship of a capitalist class that reduced the great majority of the country’s citizens to the status of victims, but as a regime rooted strongly in popular aspirations and desires. -- Richard J. Evans * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eMagnificent...a pathbreaking study that everyone interested in fascism, or in Italy past and present, should read * London Review of Books *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732280914263,"sku":"9780099539896","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099539896.jpg?v=1719996251","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fascist-voices-9780099539896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}