2-Minute History — Benito Mussolini and William Randolph Hearst

The second in a series offering two-minute history lessons

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The Power of Written Unreality

While listening to one of Italian fascism scholar and ‘Strongmen’ author Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Lucid meetings a couple years back, she mentioned that Benito Mussolini had been a syndicated columnist for William Randolph Hearst.

I had been a columnist for the Los Angel…