The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy

Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini’s commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism’s obsession with male strength. Through the story of his broken marriage to a young Jewish American opera star, Victoria de Grazia explores the cult of masculinity on which the New Rome was to be built, revealing the seductive appeal of fascism.

• | Author: Victoria De Grazia
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 22, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674271067
• | ISBN-10: 0674271068