Culture | Mussolini’s shadow

Italians’ memories of Fascism are dangerously inaccurate

Paul Corner explains the distortion in “Mussolini in Myth and Memory”

Benito Mussolini addressing crowds on during the Declaration of the Italian Empire, May 9, 1936, in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Italy. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)

Mussolini in Myth and Memory. By Paul Corner. Oxford University Press; 192 pages; $27.95 and £20

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