02260cam a2200325 i 4500 608583236 TxAuBib 20230110120000.0 221027s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022035176 9780062967251 HRD 32.50 0062967258 HRD 32.50 TxAuBib rda Moorehead, Caroline, author. Mussolini's daughter [BOOK] : the most dangerous woman in Europe / Caroline Moorehead. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] xix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy’s aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling Fascism on the international stage. How a young woman wielded such control is the heart of Caroline Moore’s fascinating history. The issues that emerge reveal not only a great deal about the power of fascism, but also the ease with which dictatorship so easily took hold in a country weakened by war and a continent mired in chaos and desperate for peace. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, some newly released, along with memoirs and personal papers, Mussolini’s Daughter paints a portrait of a woman in her twenties whose sheer force of character and ruthless narcissism helped impose a brutal and vulgar movement on a pliable and complicit society. Provided by publisher. 20230110. Ciano, Edda Mussolini Contessa. Mussolini, Benito 1883-1945 Family. Statesmen's children Italy Biography. Biographies. Italy Politics and government 1922-1945.