Records Il Duce's years as an agitator and journalist, formation of the fascist party, his years in power, and the coup d'etat that deposed him[...]

During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stali[...]