Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780062967251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 400 str.

Caroline Moorehead

Recenzje

"The narrative trajectory is something like a cross between a Martin Scorsese film and a Greek tragedy: the omnipotence, partying and carnal escapades slowly give way to feuding, executions and revenge killings. . . . It's a testament to Moorehead's precise, empathic prose that Edda emerges not as the Duce's devilish scion, but as a wounded, fragile being. . . . There is nuance and paradox: [Edda] appears not only an enabler and beneficiary of fascist crimes, but also their victim. It makes for a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read." - The Guardian

"Caroline Moorehead writes with her characteristic elegance, eye for detail, and authoritative knowledge about a monster and a survivor. The story of Mussolini's glamorous daughter is certainly a fascinating one." - Miranda Seymour, author of Mary Shelley

"Painstakingly researched and vividly told, this engrossing history turns the spotlight on the deeply conflicted Edda Mussolini, brilliantly balancing the big picture with a wealth of telling detail." - Clare Mulley, author of The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

"Timely. . . . An engrossing portrait of a young woman forced to become a public figure. . . . Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote and a gift for marshaling complex material." - The New York Review of Books

"Interesting and original . . . . Moorehead is a fine writer and a conscientious historian." - The Spectator (UK)

"Wide-ranging and compelling . . . this book will take a leading place in all studies of the reality of Fascism and all authoritarianism." - Richard Bosworth, author of Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism

"Edda was a key player in a tragedy whose plot was so extraordinary that the ancient Greeks would have been seriously proud had they thought of it, and Moorehead tells it well." - The Telegraph (UK)

"Moorehead's clear, compelling prose and sure-handed grasp of historical events combine to make Mussolini's Daughter read like a page-turning thriller, one that will have special appeal for readers fascinated by European history, World War II and the conditions that gave rise to fascism." - BookPage

"Readers of early 20th-century Italian political history should enjoy." - Library Journal

"A powerful portrait of a young woman who played a key role in one of the most terrifying and violent periods in human history." - Bookreporter.com

"Enthralling . . . . [Moorehead] brilliantly sketches the background of Mussolini and his regime, along with its deservedly bathetic end. Moorehead's readers can savour the characters of Edda and her family but also learn a great deal about the nature of Europe's first modern dictatorship." - Literary Review (UK)

"Highly readable . . . a fascinating mesh of the personal and the political." - Toronto Star

"Gripping. . . . Meticulous research. . . . Moorehead excels in describing the role played by intellectual and aristocratic circles." - History Today

"Caroline Moorehead creates with her trademark narrative elegance and authoritative attention to detail this portrait of a complicated, at times cruel, woman. . . . Engrossing and enraging, Mussolini's Daughter is in the end a balanced portrait of a woman who not only benefited from fascist crimes but was also a victim of them." - NOW Toronto

"A timely reminder of fascism's sinister allure." - Winnipeg Free Press

O autorze

Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of the Resistance Quartet, which includes A Bold and Dangerous Family, Village of Secrets, and A Train in Winter, as well as Human Cargo, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. An acclaimed biographer, she has written for the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. She lives in London and Italy.