The Sack of Rome: Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio BerlusconiAward-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 virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man? Many are the crimes of Silvio Berlusconi, Stille argues, and, with deft analysis, he weaves them into a single mesmerizing chronicle?an epic saga of rank criminality, cronyism, and self-dealing at the highest levels of power. |
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Contents
Seven BERLUSCONI ENTERS THE PLAYING FIELD | |
Nine BERLUSCONI OUT OF POWERCOUNTERPUNCHING | |
Ten BERLUSCONIS DEADLONG LIVE BERLUSCONI | |
Eleven TRIUMPH | |
Twelve ONEMAN GOVERNMENT | |
Thirteen THE PRESS TAKEOVER | |
Fourteen BASTA CON BERLUSCONI ENOUGH BERLUSCONI | |
Afterword | |
Bibliography | |
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| Title | The Sack of Rome: Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi |
| Author | Alexander Stille |
| Publisher | Penguin, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1101201681, 9781101201688 |
| Length | 400 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State History / Europe / Italy History / Modern / 21st Century |
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