Chronicles the life and times of Italy's leader, who rose from poverty to become a media billionaire and the Italian prime minister.
This book, in fact, is a unique portrait of Italy's godfather and also a detailed picture of Italian society, an attempt to allow the foreign reader to understand how it has been possible for an alleged mafia-linked business magnate and ...
Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called "one of the best English-language writers on Italy" by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a ...
He tells the story of a bright and ambitious man from a lower-middle class family who shook off his humble origins and rose to become rich and powerful beyond most people's dreams—a multi-billionaire whose Mediaset company remains one of ...
Maybe the most obvious one is the conservative who believes that the left represents a danger for the society and is ready to support any candidate who could defeat a progressive program. This is especially true in the US, where the ...
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This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.
"Faced with so many maligned media reports about Silvio Berlusconi, I felt morally obliged to say a few words in his defense, however token this defense may be." (The Author) Knowing that they could not possibly do better, Berlusconi's ...
"From cruise-ship crooner to real-estate tycoon, billionaire media mogul to the longest-serving and most controversial Prime Minister Italy has ever known, Silvio Berlusconi's life has been nothing less than a whirlwind of epic ...
While Italian politics may appear on the surface to be evolving towards a Westminster model with right- and left-wing blocs alternating in power, this impression is belied by the often nervous and disconnected way in which events unfolded ...
This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the ageof Berlusconismo.