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Richard Washburn Child (August 5, 1881 – January 31, 1935) was an American author and diplomat.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Child went to Harvard University and Law School where he graduated in 1906 to become a business lawyer. Child founded the Progressive Republican League in Massachusetts, a forerunner of the Progressive Party, and during World War I, he worked first as a correspondent in Europe and Russia, then for the U.S. Treasury, writing propaganda.
In 1916 he published a book, calling for U.S. investment in Russia. After the war he became editor of The Saturday Evening Post and served on the National Crime Commission in 1925. In 1926 he divorced.[1]
In 1928 he became a paid propaganda writer for Benito Mussolini, whose notes he ghostwrote and serialized as My Autobiography in The Saturday Evening Post, and whose politics he praised in numerous articles for the Hearst press. Together with Thomas W. Lamont he rates as one of the most influential American promoters of Italian fascism until his death in 1935.[2] Child also wrote a number of crime stories and promotional tracts throughout his career.
Boston, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Massachusetts, College of the Holy Cross, New England
Brown University, Harvard Crimson, Massachusetts, Ivy League, Association of American Universities
World War I, World War II, Benito Mussolini, Liberalism, Capitalism