Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought.(Brief article)(Book review)

Historian, The, June, 2006 by Bosworth, R.J.B.

Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought. By A. James Gregor. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 282. $35.00.)

For almost two generations, the author of this study has been the standard-bearer in the English-speaking world of the view that Italian fascism was a coherent and significant ideology. He states in his preface with disarming immodesty that "[t]his book is essentially the conclusion of an argument I first advanced a long time ago. Long resisted by my peers, the central claim ... has now been generally accepted by those best informed" (x).

In pursuit of this view, A. James Gregor proceeds with a chronological survey of the chief ideas that, in his understanding, fed into fascism. Successive...

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