Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian FascismAn incisive account of how Mussolini pioneered populism in reaction to Hitlers riseand thereby reinforced his role as a model for later authoritarian leaders "A passionately engaged history of a Mussolini and an Italy caught up in the monstrous gravitational waves engendered by the coming of Third Reich."Giuseppe Finaldi, author of Mussolini and Italian Fascism On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power in 1932, Benito Mussolini (18831945) seemed