The Sack of Rome

Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called "one of the best English-language writers on Italy" by the New York Times Book Review, & in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, & 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, & self-dealing at the highest levels of power.