 Soames also served as the Librarian for the Oyster Bay Historical Society in Oyster Bay, New York.Although written in 1927 by Mussolini, “La Dottrina del Fascismo” was first published in 1932 in the fourteenth volume of the first edition of the Enciclopedia Italiana as part of a large article about Fascism, written partly by philosopher Giovanni Gentile.The part of the article written by Mussolini was published for the first time in Italy as an essay in 1935 by Vallecchi.