Originally published in 1991. This book concerns the reception and spread of American-style progressivism in post-Fascist Italy. It places educational reconstruction in fuller historical perspective referring to newly-available archival sources.

1. Introduction 2. An Authoritarian Educational Heritage 3. The South Under Allied Military Rule: July, 1943 to February, 1944 4. Return of the Repressed: Politics and Education, February to December, 1944 5. The Maturation of Didactic Reform