The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, & Morality in Mussolini's Italy with Dr. Victoria de Grazia
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This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
Today we are traveling back to a 2020 Meet-the-Author webinar between our own Research Historian, Dr. Jason Dawsey, and Dr. Victoria de Grazia, the Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University and author of The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy.
Dr. de Grazia discussed her book, which tells the story of fascist, Attilio Teruzzi, a war hero turned commander of Mussolini’s Black Shirts, and how the personal became political in the fascist quest for manhood and power.
If you would like to view the original conversation, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/c1u-3KrQfx8
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