{"product_id":"italo-balbo-a-fascist-life-9780520071995","title":"Italo Balbo: A Fascist Life","description":"\u003cp\u003ePioneering aviator  blackshirt leader  colonial governor  confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini  the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthless squadrista whose blackshirt forces crushed socialist and trade union organizations. As Minister of Aviation from 1926 to 1933  he led two internationally heralded mass trans-Atlantic flights. When his aerial armada reached the U. S.  Chicago honored him with a Balbo Avenue  New York staged a ticker-tape parade  and President Roosevelt invited him to lunch. As colonial governor from 1933 to 1940  Balbo transformed Libya from backward colony to model Italian province. To many  Italo Balbo seemed to embody a noble vision of Fascism and the New Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960533573685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520071999","price":59.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520071995.jpg?v=1788290060","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/italo-balbo-a-fascist-life-9780520071995","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}