My Autobiography

With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"

Benito Mussolini

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780486447773
• eBook ISBN: 9780486148090
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Urged by American Ambassador to Rome Richard Washburn Child to write his autobiography, Benito Mussolini hesitated only slightly before he dictated thoughts on his private and public life. This volume reprints the Italian dictator's extraordinary comments, capturing the spirit and personality of Il Duce as no other book does.
Included are Mussolini's views on Italian politics, descriptions of his years as an agitator, journalist, and soldier, the formation of the Fascist Party, the "March on Rome," and his early years in power. The text also contains some of his most famous speeches in the Italian Parliament, his vision of Italy's return to glory, and his definitive statement on the doctrine of Fascism and its political justification.
Essential reading for students of history and political science, this frank, and frequently arrogant, revelation of the Italian leader's life produced mixed reactions when first published in 1928. "Like him or not," wrote the reviewer for the Saturday Review of Literature, "here he is, Mussolini the man, the patriot, the leader."

Index

Abruzzi

Acerbo, Giacomo

Adrianople, siege of

Adriatic, the; the Upper

Adriatic problem, the

Afghanistan

Against the Return of the Beast, quoted

Aiello

Ala

Albania; Italian military mission in

Albertini, Senator

Alessandri

Alessio

Alighieri

Alliance of Labor, the

Allies, the; Italians among the

Alps, the

Amendola

Amiata

Amilcare

Ancona; Socialist congress of

Anglo-Saxons, the

Anile

Apennines, the

Arditi Association, the

Argelato

Armistice, the

Army of Iron, the

Arno River, the

Arpinati, Leandro

Asiago, the Alps of

Augusteo, the congress at

Augustus, the tomb of

Austria; Mussolini expelled from

Austria-Hungary

Austrian navy, the

Austrian spies

Avanguardia, the

Avanti

Aventino, the; secession of the

Aviation, decline of; success of Italian

Bainsizza

Balbo, Italo

Balducci

“Balilla,” the

Balkan Wars

Banca Italiana di Sconto, crash of the

Bank of Italy, the

Bank of Naples, the

Bank of Sicily, the

Bari

Baseggio, Major

Bastianelli, Professor

Battisti, Cesare

Belgium; invasion of

Belgrade

Belluno

Bergonzoni

Bersaglieri

Berta

Bertini

Bertone

Biagi

Bianchi, Michele

Binda, Dr. Ambrogio

Black Shirts; the power of

Blue Shirt

Bologna; Fascism in; Mussolini family prominent in; Palace d’ Accursio in; City Hall Palace of; the “Podesta” of

Bolshevik ideas

Bolshevism; Russian; Utopian spirit of

Bolzano

Bonacini, Artillery Lieutenant Mario

Bonardi, Carlo

Bonomi ministry, the

Bosdari, Ambassador

Bosnia-Herzegovina, annexation of

Brenner

Brenner Pass, the

Brescia

Briand

British Empire, Foreign Minister of the

British Giubaland

Bruno, Giordano, quoted

Budapest

Bulgaria

Bulgarian foreign minister

Bundles of Fight; Central Committee of

Cabinet, the

Cagoia

Caminate, parish of

Candiano canal, the

Cannes, Inter-Allied Conference at

Capello, General

Caporetto

Carabinieri

Caradonna

Carducci, Giosue

Carducci, Valfredo

Carima, Abba

Carnaro

Carnazza, Gabriello

Carso

Carthage

Casati, Minister

Catholic Church, the

Catholic Party, the

Cavazzoni, Stefano

Central Post Office

Chamber of Deputies, the

Chamber of Parliament, the

Chamberlain

Charles of Hapsburg, death of

“Cheka,”

Child, Richard Washburn

Church, the

Church of Saint Peter

Ciano, Costanzo

Cipriani

Circolo, Sciesa, the

Cirenaica

Cittadini, General

Cividale

Civis Romanus, the

Classical Lyceum

Clemenceau

Collectivity, the

Colliva

Combattenti, the

Commission of Inquiry, the

Commission of the Solons

Communes, the

Communists, the; in Rome

Complementary schools

Conclave, the

Conference of the Ambassadors

Congress of Reggio Emilia in 1912,

Consorzio Valori, the

Constitution of 1848, the

Conti

Coppino, Minister

Corfu

Corgini, Ottavio

Corridoni, Filippo

Corriere della Sera, the

Corte, Surgeon-Major Luigi

Coselschi, Eugenio

Costa, Andrea

Council of Ministers

Credaro, Minister

Credaro policy

Cremona

Crespano

Crespi

Crown, the

Curzon, Lord

Czarism, fall of

Czechoslovakia, commercial treaties concluded with

Dalmatia; loss of

Daneo, Minister

D’Annunzio, Gabriele..

Dante

Dardanelles, the

De Bono, General

De Capitani, Giuseppe

Delcroix, Carlo

dell’ Annunziata, Collare

Democracy

Democrat-Masons

Democratic groups

Democrats, the

De Nicola

De Pinedo

Deputies, Chamber of

de Revel, Admiral Paolo Thaon

De Stefani, Alberto

d...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Bibliographical Note
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• FOREWORD
• I. A Sulphurous Land
• II. My Father
• III. The Book of Life
• IV. War and Its Effect Upon a Man
• V. Ashes and Embers
• VI. The Death Struggle of a Worn-Out Democracy
• VII. The Garden of Fascism
• VIII. Toward Conquest of Power
• IX. Thus We Took Rome
• X. Five Years of Government
• XI. New Paths
• XII. The Fascist State and the Future
• XIII. En Route
• The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism
• Index
• A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS
• CATALOG OF DOVER BOOKS