First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de Morès
Harvard University Press, February 2026. Hardcover. A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call "fascism." The Marquis de Morès was the first populist, white supremacist, and..... More
