Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
Between 1943 and 1958 a defeated fascist state with no democratic tradition built a working democracy. De Gasperi did much of it, and is barely remembered.
Between 1943 and 1958 Italy built a functioning democracy out of a defeated fascist state with no democratic tradition to fall back on. Gilbert puts De Gasperi at the centre of a story about institution-building that most accounts skip, and the tone is unusually optimistic for a history of the period, because the thing being described actually worked.
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Tyler Cowen
How Italy built a democracy after WWII, more or less out of nothing. An optimistic and good book. De Gasperi was a great man, and essential to the building out of a democratic Italy, yet today his name is hardly known.
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