Mussolini and Fascism : : The View from America / / John Patrick Diggins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Diggins, John Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1248
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (554 p.)

Mussolini, 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 Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. AMERICA, ITALY, AND THE RISE OF MUSSOLINI -- Abbreviations -- 1. Arcadia and Mulberry Street: Two Italys in the American Mind on the Eve of Fascism -- 2. Enter II Duce -- 3. American Journalists and Mussolini -- 4. Mussolini as American Hero -- Part Two. AMERICAN SOCIETY AND FASCISM -- 5. Italian-Americans and Mussolini's Italy -- 6. The Italian-American Anti-Fascist Resistance -- 7. Business and Labor -- 8. Church Windows -- 9. Three Faces for Fascism: The American Right, Left, and Center -- 10. Politics and Culture -- 11. The View from Washington -- Part Three. FASCISM AT WAR -- 12. The Ethiopian War -- 13. The Eclipse of Fascism: Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the Coming of World War II -- 15. Italian-Americans and the Fuorusciti in World War II -- 16. The Rediscovery of Italy -- 17. American Intellectuals and Fascism: The Ambiguous Legacy -- Bibliographical Note -- Index