Series foreword / Spencer M. Di Scala -- Foreword / Stanley G. Payne -- Introduction: Italian nationalism and modernity. The struggle for modernity: echoes of the Drefus Affair in Italian political culture, 1898-1912 -- Conflicting modernisms: La Voce against futurism -- The conquest of modernity: from modernist nationalism to fascism -- Myth and organization: the rationale of fascist mass politics -- The problem of the party in Italian fascism -- The theater of politics in fascist Italy -- Mussolini's charisma -- I fasci italiani all'estero: the 'foreign policy' of the Fascist Party -- Impending modernity: fascism and the ambivalent image of the United States -- Conclusion: The end of a myth.