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Book SynopsisMussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' analysis of America's reaction to an ideological phenomenon abroad reveals, he proposes, the darker side of American political values and assumptions. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Librar
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. xv*Abbreviations, pg. 3*1. Arcadia and Mulberry Street: Two Italys in the American Mind on the Eve of Fascism, pg. 5*2. Enter II Duce, pg. 22*3. American Journalists and Mussolini, pg. 42*4. Mussolini as American Hero, pg. 58*5. Italian-Americans and Mussolini's Italy, pg. 77*6. The Italian-American Anti-Fascist Resistance, pg. 111*7. Business and Labor, pg. 144*8. Church Windows, pg. 182*9. Three Faces for Fascism: The American Right, Left, and Center, pg. 204*10. Politics and Culture, pg. 240*11. The View from Washington, pg. 262*12. The Ethiopian War, pg. 287*13. The Eclipse of Fascism: Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the Coming of World War II, pg. 313*15. Italian-Americans and the Fuorusciti in World War II, pg. 399*16. The Rediscovery of Italy, pg. 422*17. American Intellectuals and Fascism: The Ambiguous Legacy, pg. 444*Bibliographical Note, pg. 497*Index, pg. 507
