Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies)

Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface * * * Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments Introduction Notes Chapter 1: Manipulating Information Notes Chapter 2: The Climb: A New Narrative Notes Chapter 3: Protean Leaderships Notes Chapter 4: Mechanisms of Consensus and Democracy Notes Chapter 5: Ideology as a Prop Notes Chapter 6: Achieving Internal Consensus Notes Chapter 7: Geopolitics Notes Chapter 8: The Women Notes Interview with U.S. Ambassador Robert J. Callahan Robert J. Callahan Interview with Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti Franco Ferrarotti Notes Bibliography Archive and Conference Proceedings Video You Tube Newspapers Journals and Magazines Film, TV Programs and TV Series Books Index About the Authors "Trump and Mussolini depicts two historic individuals, though divided by a century-the former at the dawn of mass society, the latter of social networking-as men of beginnings, exploiting these unique moments to their advantage and utilizing rhetoric, mannerism, and body language as weapons of communication often against truth and common good"-- Provided by publisher