The machine has a soul: American sympathy with Italian fascism

Introduction: The Machine with a Soul

1. The Good Adventure: Fascist Squads in a War-Weary World

2. Mystic in a Morning Coat: Americans' Mussolini in the 1920s

3. The Dream Machine: The Fascist State in an Era of Democratic Disillusionment

4. Man as the Measure of All Things: Sympathizing with Fascism in the Early Depression Years

5. The Garden of Fascism: Beauty, Transcendence, and Peace in an Era of Uncertainty

Conclusion: Searching for Soul under the Sign of the Machine.