The Father Who Was a Son
The answer is a man hanging upside down. The answer is a century that still, today, recognises its son. mussolini - son of the century
“I am not a man,” Mussolini says in the book’s fevered internal monologue. “I am a wolf.” The Father Who Was a Son The answer
We watch him rise from the gutter of il Popolo d’Italia , spitting headlines like curses. We watch him transform the Fasci di Combattimento from a handful of street thugs into a national religion. We watch him perform his greatest art: not politics, but theatre. The March on Rome in 1922 was not a coup. It was a dress rehearsal that terrified no one and thrilled everyone. The king handed him power as if handing over an umbrella. mussolini - son of the century