Volume 29, Number 15 · October 7, 1982
A Genius of Journalism
By Murray Kempton
Mussolini
by Denis Mack Smith
Knopf, 429 pp., $20.00
Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War
by MacGregor Knox
Cambridge University Press, 385 pp., $29.50
Mussolini
by Anthony James Joes
Franklin Watts, 405 pp., $18.95
Echoes resound now and then in the history of every nation; but for Italy's they roll forth in unbroken succession. Thus: 'In a small house outside the village of Predappio, the marriage of an innkeeper and a schoolmistress produced the future conqueror of Rome.'
Review, 7040 words
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