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In 1921, he founded the House of Gucci in Florence [7] [8] as a small family-owned leather shop. [1] He began selling saddles, leather bags and other accessories to horsemen in the 1920s. [ 4 ] During the 1930s League of Nations sanctions on Italy, which led to leather shortages, he innovated by developing a specially-woven hemp fabric from Naples.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, and natural science. His two-volume book Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ("Foundations of the 19th century") (1899) became a manual for Nazi racial philosophy including the concept of the master race. Considered to be one of Hitler ...
The book's reception has tended to split along political and cultural lines. Reviewing it shortly after it was released, The Morning Star said: "King steadily constructs, layer by layer, an increasingly believable world where a combination of intrusive technology, ruthlessness and effectively bland public relations has ensured the domination of the majority's thoughts and actions."
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) is a book by Barrington Moore Jr.. The work studied the roots of democratic, fascist and communist regimes in different societies, looking especially at the ways in which industrialization and the pre-existing agrarian regimes interacted to produce those different political outcomes.
Hitler also thought democracy was nothing more than a preliminary stage of Bolshevism. [ 132 ] Hitler believed in the leader principle (hence his title, the Leader, der Führer ) and considered it ludicrous that an idea of governance or morality could be held by the people above the power of the leader.
At the core of Keane's book is the author's belief that history is a necessary key for understanding democracy in the present time. Keane's worldwide perspective is an important corrective to the (mainly Western) idea that democracy has one and only distinctive form; one type of model that can be brought as a gift to people with different attitudes and histories.
Everything in “House of Gucci” is over the top. There is an alternate universe in which “ House of Gucci ” is a subtle Italian-language film. You don’t cast Jared Leto as clownish Fredo ...
His previous books include Knowledge and Practical Interests, Language in Context, Know How and the award-winning How Propaganda Works. [5] He is a witness to the "consequences of fascism", his parents having fled Germany during the Holocaust. His maternal aunts, uncles and cousins were killed in eastern Poland in 1941 during Hitler's invasion. [6]