My Autobiography (Mussolini)
My Autobiography is a book by Benito Mussolini. It is a dictated, narrative autobiography recounting the author's youth, his years as an agitator and journalist, his experiences in World War I, the formation and revolutionary struggles of the Fascist Party, the March on Rome, and his early years in power. It was translated into English, with a foreword, by Richard Washburn Child (the former American Ambassidor to Italy) in 1928.
Publishing history
First published in gilt-lettered green cloth by C. Scribner's sons in 1928. Hurst & Blackett reprinted a cheap edition in 1936. A Japanese translation was published in 1937. In 1939 Hutchinson & co published an edition with "specially authorised additions by arrangement and approval of Il Duce, bringing it up to the year 1939". Greenwood Press reprinted the 1928 edition in 1970 (ISBN 0837142946). In 1998, Da Capo Press published My Rise and Fall (ISBN 0306808641) combining My Autobiography with The Fall of Mussolini: His Own Story (1948).
ContentsForewordA Sulphurous LandMy FatherThe Book of Life (in some editions the first three chapters are one titled: Youth)War and Its Effect upon a ManAshes and EmbersThe Death Struggle of a Worn out DemocracyThe Garden of FascismToward Conquest of PowerThus We Took RomeFive Years of GovernmentNew PathsThe Fascist State and the FutureEn RouteIndex
External links
Full text of My Autobiography at Questia.
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