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Article: The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy.(Book review)
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- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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THE BODY OF IL DUCE: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy
by Sergio Luzzatto
(trans. Frederika Randall)
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005)
Hardcover: 258 pages with index
One curious, seldom-noticed interaction between Italian and American political history is the despair at supporters' antics which Mussolini and Warren G. Harding voiced, independently, just months apart. Harding, before Teapot Dome publicly blew up, lamented to Kansas newspaperman William Allen White: "I have no trouble with my enemies ... But my damned friends, my God-damn friends, White, they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!" ...