Description
ISBN: 9781849549868
Year: 2016
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Description:
Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews and Walter Isaacson's author–subject
relationship with Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of Silvio
Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who has
dominated Italian life for the past twenty years. Berlusconi has cooperated
with the bestselling author and award-winning journalist in the telling of his
life story – warts and all. From the bunga-bunga parties to his most secret
moments with world leaders, the book is rich in anecdotes and revelations
involving Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Geroge W. Bush, Vladimir Putin,
Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and many others.
Starting from the bottom in his incredible rise to power, Berlusconi was
a cruise-ship crooner as a young man, became a real estate tycoon in the '70s,
started the first commercial television network in history, and turned AC Milan
into a world-class soccer club. And that was all before he entered and survived
the squalid swampland of Italian politics, becoming the longest-serving Italian
Prime Minister in history, and generating, arguably, the most controversy of
any world leader today.