Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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. . . an engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archives to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms.
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—Pulitzer Prize Board
THE POPE AND MUSSOLINI
The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by DAVID I. KERTZER Random House Trade Paperbacks TR • 978-0-8129-8367-8 • 592pp. $20.00 • Exam Copy: $10.00
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rom National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini’s spies inside the highest levels of the Church, will forever change our understanding of the Vatican’s role in the rise of Fascism in Europe. DAVID I. KERTZER is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and professor of anthropology and Italian studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. Kertzer’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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