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Framed In Death: The Historical Memory Of Galeazzo Ciano, Paige Y. Durgin
Framed In Death: The Historical Memory Of Galeazzo Ciano, Paige Y. Durgin
Senior Theses and Projects
My thesis examines the Italian Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano. Using his extensive diaries, which he kept from 1936 to 1942, as the basis of my research, I explore the political weaknesses and failures of fascist Italy that contributed to her collapse.
Mussolini maintained that Italy and Germany shared a common destiny united by the wrongdoings each suffered at the end of World War One. In reality, the Axis alliance was mired in competition and distrust. Although Ciano initially supported the partnership, after a series of events- Hitler’s dismissal of the 1938 Munich Pact, the signing of the Pact of Steel …
The Marketing Of Mussolini : American Magazines And Mussolini, 1922-1935, Anthony F. Ambrogi
The Marketing Of Mussolini : American Magazines And Mussolini, 1922-1935, Anthony F. Ambrogi
Master's Theses
Until the Halo-Ethiopian War, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the American press had a symbiotic relationship. Mussolini used his charisma and journalistic skills to put himself in the limelight of the American foreign press, and whether they loved him or hated him, American periodicals relished the constant flow of news and sensationalism from Rome. This analysis examines the rise of Fascism and Mussolini in Italy and his efforts to market himself to the press, especially the American press. It then reviews American magazines from 1922 until Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 and their varying attitudes toward II Duce. Popular …