Sack of Rome

Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called one of the best English-language writers on Italy by the <i>New York Times Book Review</i> and in <i>The Sack of Rome</i> 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.