With a Foreword by
Richard Washburn Child
Former Ambassador to Italy

Illustrated

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1928

COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Copyright, 1928, by Curtis Publishing Co.
Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

PAGE
Foreword by Richard Washburn Child[ix]
CHAPTER
I.A Sulphurous Land[1]
II.My Father[9]
III.The Book of Life[20]
IV.War and Its Effect Upon a Man[28]
V.Ashes and Embers[59]
VI.The Death Struggle of a Worn-Out Democracy[88]
VII.The Garden of Fascism[121]
VIII.Toward Conquest of Power[147]
IX.Thus We Took Rome[173]
X.Five Years of Government[200]
XI.New Paths[242]
XII.The Fascist State and the Future[273]
XIII.En Route[308]
Index[313]

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