Silvio Berlusconi by Paul Ginsborg
Silvio Berlusconi, a self-made man with a taste for luxurious living, owner of a huge television empire and, most recently, the man who likened a German MEP to a Nazi concentration-camp guard-small wonder that much of democratic Europe and America has responded with considerable dismay and disdain to his governance of Italy. Paul Ginsborg, contemporary Italy's foremost historian, explains here why we should take Berlusconi seriously. His new book combines historical narrative Berlusconi's childhood in the dyna-mic and paternalist Milanese bourgeoisie, his strict religious schooling, a working life which has encompassed crooning, large construction projects and the creation of a commercial television empirewith careful analysis of Berlusconi's political development. While never forgetting the italianita of Berlusconi's trajectory, he argues that the Italian example is highly instructive for all modern societies. What Berlusconi represents-the relationship between the media system and politics, the nature of personal dominion at a time of crisis in representative democracy, the connection between the consumer world, families and politics, and the exploitation of the wide-open spaces left by the strategic weaknesses of modern left-wing politics-are, Ginsborg suggests, near-universal.
A scholar with thirty years' experience in Italy and the author of perhaps the best history of contemporary Italy in English or Italian.. [his] left-of-center sympathies don't prevent him from examining fairly the evidence he assembles. * New York Review of Books *
Author of the highly acclaimed books A History of Contemporary Italy and Italy and Its Discontents, Paul Ginsborg teaches history at Florence University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844670000 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844670007 |
| Title | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Author | Paul Ginsborg |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2004-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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