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The Cult of the Duce - Mussolini and the Italians (Hardcover, New)
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The Cult of the Duce - Mussolini and the Italians (Hardcover, New)
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The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically
the personality cult of Benito Mussolini. It examines practices
that began before Mussolini's rise to power and which multiplied as
Fascism consolidated its support among the Italian population. By
approaching the subject from many different angles, including those
of the visual arts and the media as well as social and political
history, this book makes a decisive contribution to the
understanding of Fascism and modern leadership. The conviction that
Mussolini was an exceptional individual first became dogma among
Fascists and then was communicated to the people at large.
Intellectuals and artists helped fashion the idea of the Duce as a
new Caesar while the modern media of press, photography, cinema and
radio aggrandised his every public act. Mussolini's image was
ubiquitous and varied; he adopted the guises of bourgeois
politician, man of culture, sportsman, family man and warrior as he
appealed to different audiences. The book explores in detail many
manifestations of the cult and the way in which Italians
experienced it. It also considers its controversial resonances in
the postwar period. The founder of Fascism was the prototype
dictator of the twentieth century. As such his cult is a crucial
topic in the study of a century that produced many examples of
dictators, some of them explicitly modelling themselves on
Mussolini. Academics and students with interests in Italian and
European history and politics will find the volume indispensable to
an understanding of the modern era. Among the contributions is an
Afterword by Mussolini's leading biographer, R.J.B. Bosworth.
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