Join host David Hartmann and fellow Columbia alumni as the book club discusses The Perfect Fascist by Columbia University professor Victoria de Grazia. Our August book selection is from Chris Stacey. When Attilio Teruzzi, a decorated military officer and early convert to the Fascist cause, married a rising American opera star, his good fortune seemed settled. The wedding was blessed by Mussolini himself. Yet only three years later, Teruzzi, now commander of the Black Shirts, renounced his wife. Lilliana was Jewish, and fascist Italy would soon introduce its first race laws.
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