Being Berlusconi - Couverture rigide

Day, Michael

 
9781137280046: Being Berlusconi
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1137280042 ISBN 13 : 9781137280046
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

People from all walks of life are appalled and fascinated in equal measure by the stratospheric political career of the tycoon and three-time Italian Prime Minister. Michael Day provides an in depth look at the life and crimes of the shameless media mogul until his nine lives ran out and he faced definitive conviction which signaled his irreversible decline. 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 Europe's largest television and cinema conglomerates. Along the way, amid the election victories, business triumphs, and womanizing, he became bogged down by his hubris, egotism, sexual obsessions, as well as his flagrant disregard for the law. And yet how and why did Italy and Italians put up with him for so long? With the 78-year-old's legal woes ongoing, including further trials for bribery, after a recent nine-month community service stint, Being Berlusconi is well-timed to mark the final chapters of a notorious-and astonishing-life and career.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

People from all walks of life are appalled and fascinated in equal measure by the stratospheric political career of the tycoon and three-time Italian Prime Minister. Michael Day provides an in depth look at the life and crimes of the shameless media mogul until his nine lives ran out and he faced definitive conviction which signaled his irreversible decline. 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 Europe's largest television and cinema conglomerates. Along the way, amid the election victories, business triumphs, and womanizing, he became bogged down by his hubris, egotism, sexual obsessions, as well as his flagrant disregard for the law. And yet how and why did Italy and Italians put up with him for so long? With the 78-year-old's legal woes ongoing, including further trials for bribery, after a recent nine-month community service stint, Being Berlusconi is well-timed to mark the final chapters of a notorious-and astonishing-life and career.

Revue de presse

I love this book. It is, to use one of the author's phrases, like eating a whole box of chocolates at once. Anyone with a passing interest in contemporary culture or politics will devour it. And those that do will delight in Day's stinging prose, which sketches not only the double-dealing and excesses of Berlusconi the monster but also the failings and weaknesses of Berlusconi the human being. --Hannah Roberts, Rome Correspondent "Daily Mail Online "

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1137280042
ISBN 13 
9781137280046
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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