The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy

The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power and Morality in Mussolini’s ItalyWhen Attilio Teruzzi, a decorated military officer, married a rising American opera star, his good fortune seemed settled. The wedding was capped with a blessing by Mussolini himself. Yet only three years later, the early convert to the Fascist cause, now commander of the Black Shirts, renounced his wife. Lilliana was Jewish, and fascist Italy would soon introduce its first race laws. The Perfect Fascist pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous

supervised by director Steven Soderbergh

and coronation

It has covered everything from a live journey on the Emperor’s jet and the tastiest places to eat in Kagoshima to the fashion designers crafting new levels of excellence and the businesses with remarkable stories untold outside Japan

Cale's additions unsurprisingly favor the classically trained side of his personality

after Ian Curtis’ death

its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald

enigmatic and effortlessly cool

And the lifelike presence and directness of his singing

an oblivious husband and ever-encroaching domestic chaos

this book provides an invaluable framework for understanding ongoing debates and finding a way forward

In Scene of the Crime

So begins the wildest night of his life