Table of Contents

.1.Making Mussolini Spencer M. Di Scala.-.2. Father and Son Philip Cannistraro.-.3. A Romagnol in Switzerland: Education of a Revolutionary Simone Visconti.-.4. A Revolutionary in Trentino Stefano Biguzzi.-.5. Mussolini and Revolutionary Syndicalism Marco Gervasoni.-.6. The Battle Within: Benito Mussolini, the Reformists, and the Great War Spencer M. Di Scala.-.7. The Enemy of My Enemy: Gaetano Salvemini, Benito Mussolini, and the Politics of the Liberal State, 1910-1914 Charles Killinger.-.8. The Style of a Revolutionary Journalist Pierluigi Allotti.-.9. A Revolution for the Third Italy Emilio Gentile.

About the Author

Spencer M. Di Scala is Professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern Italian and European history.  He has won awards for his scholarship, held Fulbright Fellowships and visiting professorships at Italian universities, and has published groundbreaking books in twentieth century European history.

Emilio Gentile is an award-winning Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome and has been visiting professor at several American universities.  He has published fundamental works in the history of Italian Fascism and has led the field in researching the theme of politics as a secular religion.