Book review: The Fascist Party and popular opinion inMussolini’s Italy

In The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy, Paul Corner reexamines the experience of Italy during Mussolini’s fascist regime. Based largely on unpublished archival material, the book concludes by suggesting that the abuse of power by fascists mirrors much wider problems in Italy related to the relationship between the public and the private and to the modes of utilisation of power, both in the past and in the present. Massimo Mangilli-Climpson finds the book contains a well-argued discussion raising a number of new points about the country’s development in the early 20th century.