Benito mussolini biography book

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My Autobiography is a book by Benito Mussolini. It is a dictated, narrative autobiography recounting the author's youth, his years as an agitator and journalist, his experiences in World War I , the formation and revolutionary struggles of the Fascist Party , the March on Rome , and his early years in power. Mussolini dictated parts of the text to his brother Arnaldo Mussolini who handed the manuscripts, together with other material supplied by Mussolini's lover Margherita Sarfatti , to Richard Washburn Child the former American ambassador to Italy.

Child served together with Luigi Barzini, Jr. It was a paid work of propaganda and remained unpublished in Italy until In this preface, he wrote:. In our time it may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to those of Mussolini.

My Autobiography is a book by Benito Mussolini.

The autobiography was first published as a book in gilt-lettered green cloth by Charles Scribner's Sons in The text's typescript is held in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. A Japanese translation was published in Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.