Sack of Rome How a Beautiful European Country With a Fabled History And a Storied Culture Was Taken Over By A Man Named Silvio Berlusconi

"[W]e need not share [Mr. Stille's] antipathy to Italy's cultural shift to find his account of Mr. Berlusconi's career disturbing. Though much of the evidence is circumstantial, Mr. Stille makes a compelling case that Mr. Berlusconi's rise to wealth and power depended on not only entrepreneurial skill but also bribery, tax evasion, and even collaboration with the Mafia....He portrays Mr. Berlusconi's rise as a cautionary tale of a ruthless politician using populist rhetoric and the power of television to control the institutions of liberal society, including the press, legislators and the courts."Stille, Alexander is the author of 'Sack of Rome How a Beautiful European Country With a Fabled History And a Storied Culture Was Taken Over By A Man Named Silvio Berlusconi', published 2006 under ISBN 9781594200533 and ISBN 159420053X.