My Autobiography (Mussolini book)
Mussolini dictated parts of the text to his brother Arnaldo Mussolini who handed the manuscripts, together with other material supplied by Mussolini's lover Margherita Sarfatti, to Richard Washburn Child (the former American ambassador to Italy). Child served together with Luigi Barzini, Jr. as a ghostwriter for the autobiography, which was mainly aimed at readers in the U.S. It was a paid work of propaganda and remained unpublished in Italy until 1971. It was first serialized in "The Saturday Evening Post" (May to Oct. 1928) and then published as a book, with a foreword, by Child. In this preface, he wrote: The autobiography was first published as a book in gilt-lettered green cloth by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1928. The text's typescript is held in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hurst & Blackett reprinted a cheap edition in 1936. A Japanese translation was published in 1937. In 1939, Hutchinson & Co. published an edition with "specially authorized additions by arrangement and approval of Il Duce, bringing it up to the year 1939". Greenwood Press reprinted the 1928 edition in 1970 (). In 1998, Da Capo Press published "My Rise and Fall" () combining "My Autobiography" with "The Fall of Mussolini: His Own Story" (1948). #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
Publishing history
My Autobiography is a book by Benito Mussolini.