***Rebooting my report on ‘Strongmen’ three years after its publication — the lessons are profound.—originally published September 8, 2023.***
‘What Times Those Were’
Benito Mussolini was ‘losing sleep and plagued by an ulcer’ — the murder of the Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti had de-popularized the Italian strongman, known as Il Duce.
As Ruth Ben-Ghia…