Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists - Paperback

by Anna Camaiti Hostert (Author), Enzo Antonio Cicchino (Author), Anthony Julian Tamburri (Preface by)

Trump and Mussolini depicts two historic individuals, though divided by a century--the former at the dawn of mass society, the latter of social networking--as men of beginnings, exploiting these unique moments to their advantage and utilizing rhetoric, mannerism, and body language as weapons of communication often against truth and common good.

Author Biography

Anna Camaiti Hostert, PhD, is a writer and philosopher in the field of political science and visual studies.

Enzo Antonio Cicchino is a documentarist and author of several history programs on fascism for the Italian National Public Broadcast (RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana).