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Silvio Berlusconi - Television, Power and Patrimony (Hardcover)
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Silvio Berlusconi - Television, Power and Patrimony (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
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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.
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