David Broder

Un libro di fondamentale importanza per comprendere l'Italia di oggi. A ottant'anni dalla fine di Mussolini e del suo regime i suoi eredi politici, già infima minoranza, sono saldamente al governo dell'Italia: dal 2% delle elezioni del 2013 Fratelli d'Italia è passato al 26% delle elezioni del 2022. Come ci siamo arrivati? A questa domanda tenta di rispondere "I nipoti di Mussolini", in cui lo storico e commentatore inglese David Broder fa il contropelo ai sedicenti movimenti «postfascisti» italiani, che affondano le loro radici nel fascismo del Ventennio ma sostengono allo stesso tempo di averlo «consegnato alla Storia».

'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking' - John Foot, historian

A provocative look at Italy's political disaster from the Cold War to today

In the fall of 2017, David Huckfelt left behind the familiar—the comfort of his home in Minneapolis; the camaraderie of his critically acclaimed band, The Pines; the luxuries of heat, hot water, and electricity—and relocated to Isle Royale, America’s most remote and least visited national park in mighty Lake Superior. Six hours by boat off the Michigan coast, Isle Royale is the largest island in the world’s largest freshwater lake, an isolated stretch of wilderness seemingly forgotten by the 20th century (to say nothing of the 21st). There, as an Artist In Residence selected by the National Park Service, Huckfelt spent ten hours a day for two straight weeks writing in solitude, channeling the mysterious and lonesome island’s spirits into his stunning debut solo album, ‘Stranger Angels.’

During the final years of the Second World War, a decisive change took place in the Italian left, as the Italian Communist Party (PCI) rose from clandestinity and recast itself as a mass, patriotic force committed to building a new democracy. This book explains how this new party came into being. Using Rome as its focus, it explains that the rebirth of the PCI required that it subdue other, dissident strands of communist thinking. During the nine-month German occupation of Rome in 1943-44, dissident communists would create the capital’s largest single resistance formation, the Communist Movement of Italy (MCd’I), which galvanised a social revolt in the capital's borgate slums.