La secessione parlamentare dell’Aventino e la sua ricezione negli Stati Uniti (1924-1925)

This article discusses how the White House and English-speaking American public opinion reacted to the political crisis provoked in Italy by the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, which had its central moment in the parliamentary “Aventine Secession,” desired by almost all the anti-fascist opposition. By cross-referencing archive sources, diplomatic documentation, newspapers, and historical literature, the aim is to reflect on two aspects in particular: firstly, how Fascism sponsored its image in the United States in the phase immediately preceding the totalitarian turn in January 1925; secondly, admittedly from a specific perspective, examining the relations between the government in Rome and the American one at the beginning of Calvin Coolidge’s presidency.