The somewhat controversial Italian Prime Minister of Italy gets reviewed by the Swedish journalist Kristina Kappelin in the book "Berlusconi - The Italian"
The book is explaining why the Italians have voted Berlusconi to power three times, which most swedes find quite strange. She writes mostly on the topics of maffia connections, media, women, justice, religion and democrasy in Italy.
If you don't know Berlusconi, he is the prime minister of Italy and one of the most successfull business men of the whole world, owning various Tv stations, news papers etc.
He is the party leader of the Italian political party "Il Popolo della Libertà", The People of Freedom which is promoting an centre-righ christian democratic politic with liberal economic views.
The books takes you through all the steps of his financial imperium, his fight against the Italian judiciary over the Tv-channels in the 1980s.
Kristina Keppelin got many years of experience as an correspondent in Italy with some interviews and press converses with Berlusconi. She is also living in Italy so she got a good view on what's going on there.
Berlusconi is known to be a man of scandals, which is pointed out various times in this book. This book is a bit anti-Berlusconi but I think she isn't too bius and Berlusconi is given a fair reflection.
The book isn't focusing on scandals but more the economic/maffia aspect of Italy and Berlusconi. He has never been suspected or sentenced for any maffia meddling or associations.
It's an eye opening book on the subject of Italian politics and explains the mind of the average Italian. The book basically takes you through the life of Silvio Berlusconi, from all his business, to the judiciary but also how he is as a person, which makes him look more "human" to the people who don't know him.
During the last decades in Italy thousands of politicians and businessmen have gotten sentenced to jail for maffia related crimes, Silvio Berlusconi is not one of them. He might not be what non-Italians expect politics to be bu the is honest in his opinions, a good politician and a businessman, which has gotten him respect from many people across the world.
The book is 10 chapters long and contain an introduction, how it all started, the media the maffia and the life of Silvio Berlusconi.
If you get the chance to buy this book I highly recommend it because it got everything you need to know about Berlusconi, why he's in power and how he did it.
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