• Obama's Country

    In one night America moved from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama, and the world changed. This book is a journey in ten chapters to visit the places, to meet the people and to observe how America is building his new dream. If you want to know why the Whites decided to vote for a Black, how the Blacks free themselves from the memory of the slavery, how is possible to build an economic model on the green energy and how can freedom coexist with security, you have to visit Obama's country, the 44th president of the United States. - (Laterza, October 15, 2009)

  • DEMOCRATIC COWBOYS

    Who are and in what the Liberals that want to take back the White House and change the world believe. Faces and ideas of a new political season. Private consumption as a way to protect the environment, an idea of God to be shared with those that don't belive, stronger international alliances, a new Us-Eu doctrine on the use of force and new legal codes to face the challenge of terrorism without harting our liberties. - (Einaudi, January 01, 2008)

  • THE JEWS OF NEW YORK

    Crystal-clear as a photograph, well-researched as a history textbook and accessible as a tourist guide, "The Jews of New York" describes every aspect of Jewish life in the latter-day New York, acquainting an imaginary visitor arriving in Manhattan in 2007 with the places, events, personalities, passions, arts and foods characterizing the everyday life of the biggest Jewish city of the world, its values and contradictions. This portait is depicted against the backdrop of 350 years of history, with detailed references to the topography of the five boroughts so every reader can independently pursue the discovery of a reality experiencing constant permutation. - (Laterza, January 01, 2007)

  • ITALY SEEN BY THE CIA (1948-2004)

    From the second postwar period to the Iraqi war, passing for Gladio, the Red Brigates, the attempt to kill to Giovanni Paolo II, the backstage of the parties, the Gulf War, the political debut of Berlusconi, Kosovo and September 11: the Cia agents and the diplomats of the State Department annotated and sent dispatches to Washington on the Italian politics and its protagonists. This book, written together with Paolo Mastrolilli, contains an history of the Italian politics that has the taste of the espionage, preserved in the federal files finally declassified - (Laterza, January 01, 2005)

  • GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE AMERICAN MISSION

    Who is the most powerful man in the world? What is his background? Why does he believe in an “American mission”? And why does he want to convince the rest of the world that he is right? With the unflinching eye of the accomplished journalist, the author furnishes an intimate portrait devoid of rushed convictions or acquittals. Bush’s background and objectives are carefully scrutinized, as are his personal strengths and weaknesses. The President’s relationship to First Lady Laura and Senior Aide Condoleezza Rice are accorded scrupulous attention, as are his difficult rapport with the looming paternal shadow, his love of Texas, and individual interpretation of the Methodist faith, which are all identified as key factors behind White House policies. The President’s reactions to 9/11 and the ousting of Saddam, his duel with Jacques Chirac and negotiation of the Wall Street front are considered valuable indicators of his emotional and political coming-of-age. The author invites his audience to examine the President’s journey against the backdrop of the Reagan legacy and steep ascent of the Neo-conservatives without promoting any preconceived ideas. On the contrary: the readers are openly encouraged to form their own opinion and emancipate themselves from ubiquitous misinformation. This objective biography is required reading for those who wish to fully comprehend the complex events which are shaping a nation that seems so close and is yet so far. - (Laterza, January 01, 2004)

  • NO GLOBAL? WHAT GLOBAL PROTEST MOVEMENTS ARE REALLY SAYING

    It is a mistake to belive that in the globalizazion movement the protest is more important than the proposals. Thanks to their base and think thank these groups challenge the globalization to be human, asking to the rich countries to face the hot issues of the new century: poverty in the Third World, fight against the Aids, protection of the human rights, food safety, climate change. - (Laterza, January 01, 2004)

  • LIBERTY AND ITS ENEMIES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL WALTZER

    September 11th 2001 and the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq made politics more extreme. The Right wants security at any price, the Left is looking for the universal peace and refuses the use of force. In this book Walzer challenge the Left to find a path alternative to the Right, to be able to fight the war on terror without forgetting the civil liberties and the constitutional rights. - (Laterza, January 01, 2003)

  • WALL STREET IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

    Since the end of the Cold War is the first time that the last superpower has to face the combination of war, economic crisis and financial scandals. In this book some of the most known names of politics, economy and finance answer to the questions of Paolo Mastrolilli and Maurizio Molinari describing the difficult beginnig of the Third Millennium. - (Fondazione Liberal, January 01, 2003)

  • BETWEEN WHITE HOUSE AND BOTTEGHE OSCURE. INTERVIEW WITH LAMBERTO DINI

    The meetings at the White House to reassure the Clinton administration about the arrival at power in Italy of the post-communists; the diplomatic crisis at Rambouillet and the Nato’s war against Yugoslavia; the Italian plane used by the secret service to transfer the two Libyans suspects for the Lockerbie bombing; the role played by the Greeks 007 in the escape of Abdullah Ocalan. Accused to be cold-blood, cynic and too much pragmatic on the Human Rights in dealing with countries as Algeria, North Korea, Iran and Libya, Lamberto Dini, minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2001, in this book-interview describes the path of a National Interest that, after the Cold War, tries to put together loyalty to the West and openess to its worst enemies, need to defend the Human Rights and to preserve the regional stability. - (Guerini Associati, January 01, 2001)

  • THE NATIONAL INTEREST. TEN TALES OF ITALY IN THE WORLD

    From the Ocalan affair to war in Kosovo, from Operation [Alba] in Albania to the dialogue with Teheran, from the meetings with colonel Qadhafi to the European Army, the drammatic events and the behind the scenes that took Italy to re-descover the idea of National Interest during the first leftist governments in Italy (1996-2000). - (Laterza, January 01, 2000)

  • THE LEFT AND THE JEWS IN ITALY (1967 - 1993)

    At the end of WWII the Jewish leadership of the Italian Jewry choose the Left in the Italian politics. After having been strongly in favor of the reunification of Italy, very enthusiastic supporters of nationalism and persecuted by the Fascism many Italian Jews found their new moral and intellectual homeland at Left. But with the Six Days War in 1967 most of the Italian Left took side with the USSR interests in Middle East and thus began to propagat an ideological anti-zionism that very often became antisemitism. - (Corbaccio)

  • THE JEWS IN ITALY, A PROBLEM OF IDENTITY (1870-1938)

    Who are the Italian Jews? Thirty-five thousand souls, more than two thousend years of History and an identity that is continuing changing since after Italy was born as an unified nation in 1870. Zionists and not, orthodox and assimilated, conservatives and socialists, the Jews were united in defending the new rights of every citizen. The Fascism could not be their friend but too many Jews understood it too late because they saw it only as a new form of nationalism. On the contrary the Libyan Jews, them too with an Italian cultural backround, never trusted Mussolini. The tragedy of the Shoà deleted those political debates, emotions and duels of ideas. Redescover them now means to try to reassemble the original mosaic of the Italian Jewish identity. - (La Giuntina)