«Scritto benissimo, commovente. In futuro verrà considerato al livello delle opere di Primo Levi.»Times Literary Supplement«Una meticolosa ricerca e una grande sensibilità, uno sguardo inedito su vittime, eroi e carnefici, ebrei e gentili. Un libro che merita di stare accanto ai romanzi più illuminanti sulla vita e sulla morte sotto il fascismo.»The New York Times«Il frutto di una ricerca accuratissima e ...

A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory"One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest.The Force of Things

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZEThe devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult.In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders, Saul Newton and Jane Pearce, wanted to start a revolution, one grou...

Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the two Sicilian prosecutors who in the 1980s took the war against the Mafia further than anyone had ever dared.In 1992, aware that the two magistrates were without the complete support of t...

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

«Molto chiaro, molto preciso, molto fattuale e perfino esaustivo.»la Repubblica - Filippo CeccarelliCon una nuova prefazione dell'autoreLa biografia attenta e documentata che Alexander Stille ha dedicato a Silvio Berlusconi è stata subito accolta come un libro fondamentale per capire le ragioni di un successo imprenditoriale, politico e mediatico che dura da decenni. Citizen Berlusconi è un’inchiesta condotta secondo il mode...

Ugo Stille è uno dei personaggi più geniali e misteriosi dell’Italia della seconda metà del Novecento. Figlio di ebrei esuli dalla Russia comunista e approdati in Italia, giovanissimo antifascista conosce i protagonisti della resistenza ed è amico di Giaime Pintor. Riesce rocambolescamente a rifugiarsi negli Stati Uniti e risale la penisola con l’esercito americano, occupandosi di stampa e propaganda. Quando torna negli Stati Uniti diventa il corrispondente del «Corriere della Sera»: in qu...

Da questo libro il film di Marco Turco In un altro paese, miglior documentario italiano al 46° Festival dei popoliSe è facile vedere che inquirenti e giudici hanno fatto in questi decenni notevoli passi avanti, ci sono meno indizi del fatto che le due maggiori coalizioni politiche capiscano davvero quel che bisogna fare: un impegno serio e coerente nella lotta contro la mafia; tolleranza zero per gli uomini politici che hanno contatti con il crimine or...

An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalizationSpace radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of art, and ways of life that have survived thousands of years of hardship and war. This paradox is central to...

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, 1992“Alexander Stille’s stunning achievement in Benevolence and Betrayal — the result of meticulous research and comprehensive understanding — is to give faces and personalities to people who might otherwise have been consigned to anonymity... ‘Frequently,’ Mr. Stille says, ‘the best and worst instincts resided within the same person.’ He puts this remark in parentheses; but it is this recognition that makes his book valuable, ...

A man who has found his soulmate... A woman determined to forget him...I knew the moment I laid eyes on Selina Grymes she was the girl I was going to marry. We made plans to grow old together, have children, and live the rest of our lives here in Tyson's Creek. But once we graduated high school, she left town and never returned, taking my heart with her.Selina disappeared for fifteen long years without a word, before suddenly reappearing in town and turning...

Weihnachtstrubel in den Schweizer Alpen ... Es ist Heiligabend. Pünktlich zum Fest öffnet der Himmel seine Schleusen und schneit das idyllische Tal in den Schweizer Alpen tief ein. Kein Problem, denn die Großfamilie von Elisabeth und Pascal will sich ohnehin zum Käsefondue in der gemütlichen Almhütte treffen - für eine besinnliche heilige Nacht. Vor tief verschneiter Bergkulisse erwarten sie die Ankunft ihrer Kinder mit ihren Familien. Nach und nach kommt die Familie zusammen, aber die bes...