Alexander Stille

Broschiertes Buch

Excellent Cadavers

The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

Beschreibung

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. The public outcry demanded their work was completed, which led to the toppling of crucial political alliances.

Autor

Alexander Stille's first book, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, was chosen by the Time Literary Supplement as one of the best books of 1992, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. Since Excellent Cadavers he has written The Future of the Past and The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi. He has written for the Boston Globe, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Toronto Globe & Mail and the New Yorker. He is also the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. Stille lives in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780099594918
• ISBN-10: 0099594919
• Artikelnr.: 22248706