The Sack of Rome: Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi

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 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.

Author: Alexander Stille
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.56w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780143112105

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/19/2007 pg. 20

About the Author
Alexander Stille is the author of The Future of the Past, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, and Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.