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 Ambassador to Italy) in 1928. In this preface, he wrote:
It may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to Mussolini
Publishing history
First published in gilt-lettered green cloth by Charles 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 0-8371-4294-6). In 1998, Da Capo Press published My Rise and Fall (ISBN 0-306-80864-1) combining My Autobiography with (1948).
Contents
- Foreword
- A Sulphurous Land
- My Father
- The Book of Life (in some editions the first three chapters are one titled: Youth)
- War and Its Effect upon a Man
- Ashes and Embers
- The Death Struggle of a Worn out Democracy
- The Garden of Fascism
- Toward Conquest of Power
- Thus We Took Rome
- Five Years of Government
- New Paths
- The Fascist State and the Future
- En Route
- Index
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