Aperitif with author, book presentation "Berlusconi tells Friedman"

Aperitif with author, book presentation "Berlusconi talks to Friedman. "My way" by Alan Friedman, Asiago, January 17, 2016

"Happy hour with the author" to Asiago: at Teatro Millepini meeting with Alan Friedman and presentation of the book "Berlusconi talks to Friedman. My way. "

The event is scheduled for 17 hours and it will be a unique opportunity to learn more about the famous American journalist and his work.

The meeting is organized in collaboration with the Library Giunti al Punto di Asiago-corso IV Novembre- as always brings on thePlateau important authors and their literary works.

MY WAY. BERLUSCONI TOLD FRIEDMAN

In any other Western nation, over the past two decades, a political leader has so completely dominated the scene as did Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. Nobody has sparked so much controversy, none has been so loved and hated. In this book, Alan Friedman, after half a year of interviews and conversations with Berlusconi, his friends, his family, recounts a life that knows no half measures.

An intimate portrait of a man who thought we knew it all. But responding to Friedman, Berlusconi speaks his mind like never before. Traces his troubled legal mess and the long war with the judiciary, talks about his passion for women, relive the triumphs and the bitterness of defeats. The 1960s and 1970s, when its garden city have embodied the dream of an Italy that discovered the Club. Tells about the 1980s, when commercial television has changed the habits and tastes of the Italians, flooding the airwaves of yuppie American consumerism and hedonism. Tells his beloved AC Milan, the team for which he was cheering as a child and brought on the roof of the world. Tells the Italian politics, talks about his past and his future.

In the lively portrait of Friedman play a vital relief the dramatic international events, because Berlusconi has been witness and protagonist of the period after the fall of the Berlin wall. Behind the friendship with George w. Bush and Vladimir Putin (interviewed here exclusively) shines through its role as mediator in secret diplomacy between Moscow and Washington. And European and American access to confidential sources and the exceptional testimonies of José Luis Zapatero and José Manuel Barroso, Friedman reveals an authentic international intrigue and reconstructs the maneuvers that accompanied the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the intervention in Libya at the beginning of the Arab spring and the tumultuous eurozone summits on the financial crisis in the fall of 2011. Finally brings to light, in a shining example of investigative journalism, the true role of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy in a bid to bring down Berlusconi.

In a book that is never biased and has the rhythm of a novel, Friedman offers readers a unique opportunity to get to know a man overflowing personality. "Can they do to me many things," said Berlusconi "but they can't make me resign from myself."

ALAN FRIEDMAN

Alan Friedman (New York, April 30, 1956) is a journalist, writer, producer and television presenter, as well as author of the bestseller of economy and politics.
A graduate of New York University (NYU), he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington.

It was one of the most important names of the Financial Times from 1979 to 1993, first in London from 1979 to 1983, then Italy correspondent (1983-1989), and the United States (1989-1993). Four times winner of the British Press Award (English equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize). It is the only American journalist to have received the Medal of honor by the Italian Parliament in 1997. In 1987 he won the Premio Trento as best foreign correspondent in Italy. Among his scoops the case Iraq gate scandal that swept the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) and proved the involvement of the White House and the CIA in the sale of weapons to Saddam Hussein.

Afterwards it was Global Economy correspondent of the International Herald Tribune, and has also written for the New York Times from 1994 to 2003. Global Economy columnist of The Wall Street Journal Europe from 2003 to 2005.

Early in his career, was a young employee of the administration of President Jimmy Carter. Over the past ten years has been a producer of television programmes on the economics and politics and also a consultant to government leaders in Asia and the Middle East, as well as international organizations such as the UN for economic policy and communication strategies.
Columnist and commentator of the economy among the most respected in Europe, author and tv host, very popular in Italy, where he worked extensively with Rai3, Bbc2 and La7, Sky TG24.

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