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The language [of Fascism] was made all the more potent by being historically & culturally familiar. Many spoke of how their commitment emerged from a belief that they were finishing the uncompleted Risorgimento: "we have made Italy, now we must make Italians."

However varied the impulses that led so many people what by 1922 had become the largest party in the history of Italy, the crusader language in which Mussolini clothed his actions created a moral arsenal with which a movement rooted in violence & illegality could be legitimated.

Learning a lot, interesting telling of a period primarily through accounts of the Italian peasantry, middle class, and aristocracy. Great insight into what every day Italians thought of the Mussolini regime in the moment.