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PREFACE 7
FOREWORD 9
PROLOGUE
THE DAMNOSA HEREDITAS 11
CHAPTER I
THE ANATOMY OF POLITICS AND THE RULE OF THE RIGHT 32
CHAPTER II
THE LEFT IN POWER GOVERNMENT BY EVASION 62
CHAPTER III
THREE GREAT ISSUES AND TWO SMALL MEN 93
CHAPTER IV
THE POLITICS OF PESSIMISM 126
CHAPTER V
FRANCESCO CRISPI 167
CHAPTER VI
ZANARDELLI AND THE LIBERAL SPRING 206
CHAPTER VII
THE RISE OF GIOLITTI 240
CHAPTER VIII
THE GIOLITTIAN SYSTEM AND THE LIBYAN WAR 272
CHAPTER IX
THE PROBLEM OF INTERVENTION OF THE WAR AND OF THE
PEACE 300
EPILOGUE 331
NOTES 341
INDEX 395
ILLUSTRATIONS
MAP
SHOWING ILLITERACY IN ITALY IN 1918 TO BE CONSIDERED
IN RELATION TO THE QUESTION OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE AND PROPORTIONAL
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POLITICAL CARTOONS
FACING PAGE
I DEPRETIS AS THE GOOD FAIRY DISTRIBUTES GIFTS TO THE
PROVINCES 72
II THE GRIST TAX AND THE TAX ON SUGAR 96
III THE HON SONNINO FORMS HIS CABINET 256
IV L LUZZATTI PREMIER PRESENTS AN ELECTORAL REFORM 272
