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Benito Mussolini, The Man was written by French author Vahdah Jeanne Bordeux in 1927, five years after Il Duce took over the government of Italy. She writes in her preface that this was not meant to be a political book, for or against fascism. The author praises Il Duce with accomplishing the “greatest post-war achievement of any country” and saving Italy from unending disaster. Modernizing the country, making it a clean, orderly and prosperous country.

Vahdah Jeanne Bordeux writes she lived in Italy before and after Mussolini became Prime Minister and “knows” first-hand how his rule has brought order and prosperity out of chaos.

The book has a preface by the Governor of Rome, Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, who praises the work as fact, without tiresome details and no historical discrepancies. “The great work that the Duce has done for Italy is described with accuracy.”

There are 23 illustrations printed on glossy unnumbered pages throughout the text. They include the house in which Mussolini was born in Predappio, his parents, Mussolini playing the violin at Villa Torlonia in Rome, with his two young sons Vittorio and Bruno, on horseback, greeting King Victor Emmanuel, and even with a bandaged nose after the failed April 1926 assassination attempt by Violet Gibson.

This 6-¼ x 9-¼ inch, 288-page hardcover book was published by Hutchinson & Co of London in 1927, and printed in Great Britain. It has some wear to the covers but is in good used condition for a nearly 100 year old book. It has no odor. The front flyleaf has the name and stamp of a previous owner in North Hollywood, California.