| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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La "Diplomazia parallela": Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel diplomacy": The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans). By Stefano Luconi. (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2000. 157 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-464-2179-5.) In Italian.

On November 7, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act as a formal acknowledgment of the injustices suffered by Italian Americans during World War II. It would be ill advised, however, to accept the experience of Italian Americans as yet another example of United States government violation of the rights of its people in times of war. As is well known, during the interwar years large numbers of Italian Americans, together with most of their ethnic leaders and institutions, embraced with pride the image of a powerful and feared "new Italy" and actively supported Benito Mussolini and his regime. Based on extensive research in archives on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Stefano Luconi adds new insight into that transnational relationship. La "Diplomazia parallela" presents a compelling description of the successful efforts by Mussolini and his cohorts to mobilize Italian Americans as an effective lobby to pressure the United States government to adopt policies beneficial to Fascist Italy in the period from the early 1920s to the onset of the war in Europe. . . .

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