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This book is the astonishing untold story of a woman who tried to stop the rise of Fascism and change the course of history. At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome’s Campidoglio Square. Less than a foot in front of her stood Benito Mussolini. As he raised his arm to give the Fascist salute, the woman raised hers and shot him at point-blank range. Mussolini escaped virtually unscathed, cheered on by practically the whole world. Violet Gibson, who expected to be thanked for her action, was arrested, labeled a “crazy Irish spinster” and a “half-mad mystic”—and promptly forgotten. Now, in an elegant work of reconstruction, Frances Stonor Saunders retrieves this remarkable figure from the lost historical record. She examines Gibson’s aristocratic childhood in the Dublin elite, with its debutante balls and presentations at court; her engagement with the critical ideas of the era—pacifism, mysticism, and socialism; her completely overlooked role in the unfolding drama of Fascism and the cult of Mussolini; and her response to a new and dangerous age when anything seemed possible but everything was at stake. In a grand tragic narrative, full of suspense and mystery, conspiracy and backroom diplomacy, Stonor Saunders vividly resurrects the life and times of a woman who sought to forestall catastrophe, whatever the cost. - Publisher.
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Biography, Mussolini, Benito,, History, Assassins, Family, Aristocracy (Social class), Fascism, Assassination attempt, 1926 (April 7), Catholic converts, Families, Attempted assassination, Aristocracy (social class), Ireland, biography, Fascism, italy, Mussolini, benito, 1883-1945, Criminals, biography, Social classes, Ireland, history, Assassination attempt, 1925 (april 7)Places
Ireland, Dublin, Italy, Dublin (Ireland)Times
1837-1901, 20th centuryShowing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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Woman Who Shot Mussolini
2011, Faber & Faber, Limited, Faber & Faber
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Woman Who Shot Mussolini: A Biography
2011, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
2010, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
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The woman who shot Mussolini
2010, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., Metropolitan Books, Brand: Metropolitan Books
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The woman who shot Mussolini
2009, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-361) and index.
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