Hermaphrodeity: The Autobiography of a Poet

FRIEDMAN, Alan

Literature & Fiction

Alfred.A. Knopf

Agnelli and the Network of Italian Power

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Harrap

Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews, and Walter Isaacson's author-subject relationship to Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned prime minster who has dominated Italian life for the past twenty years. Berlusconi has cooperated with the bestselling author and award-winning journalist in the telling of his life story. Warts and all. From the bunga-bunga parties to his most secret moments with world leaders. The book is rich in anecdotes and revelations involving Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Geroge W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Mickhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, and many others. Berlusconi's incredible rise to power started from nothing. A self-created man, he was a cruise ship crooner as a young man, became a real estate tycoon in the '70s, started the first commercial television network in history, and turned AC Milan into a world-class soccer club. And that was all before he survived the squalid swampland of Italian politics to became prime minister who has not only served the longest in Italian history, but also has generated the most controversy of arguably any world leader today. All of which will be explored thoroughly and candidly in these pages in a book that reads like a thriller.

Berlusconi: The Epic Story of the Billionaire Who Took Over Italy

Leaders & Notable People

Hachette Books

Before there was real estate tycoon cum President-Elect Donald J. Trump, there was Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned prime minster who dominated Italian life for the past twenty years. In a candid, warts-and-all portrait of the leader who played hard in office and in private life. From the bunga-bunga parties to his most secret moments with world leaders, this biography is rich in anecdotes and revelations involving Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel , and many others. Berlusconi's incredible rise to power started from nothing. A self-created man, he was a cruise ship crooner as a young man, became a real estate tycoon in the '70s, started the first commercial television network in history, and turned AC Milan into a world-class soccer club. And that was all before he survived the squalid swampland of Italian politics to become prime minister who has not only served the longest in Italian history, but also has generated the most controversy of arguably any world leader today.

Fictional memoirs of one individual's rather unusual life. A very good hardcover copy with gilt lettering to spine. Light fading to top cover edge. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Good jacket in removable mylar; light chipping and some tearing; white mark on spine, moisture stain on back; price-clipped. NOT ex-library. 426pgs. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0394472918. ISBN/EAN: 9780394472911. Inventory No: 017555.

A probing look at the life of one of Italy's most powerful figures describes the many provinces of Gianni Agnelli, including the Fiat industry, several major Italian newspapers, and major stock.

Agnelli, Fiat and the Network of Italian Power

Business & Money

Dutton Adult

For ten years, the White House, assisted by allies in London and Rome, brushed aside the law in a relentless quest to support Saddam Hussein. What were the forces that shaped this persisting embrace of a dictator whom George Bush would eventually compare to Adolf Hitler? How did Washington and its NATO allies nurture a frequently illicit rapport with Saddam, and what was the real story of why it became necessary to mount Operation Desert Storm? How did the governments led by George Bush and Margaret Thatcher seek to cover up their past dealings with the Iraqi leader after Desert Storm finally drove him from Kuwait in 1991?

Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq

History

Middle East

Bantam]

Androgyny is destiny. "Miss, you're also a boy!" a gynecologistharrumphs in Hermaphrodeity, a grand comedy of gendersurprises. Boy or girl--choose one. Millie or Willie. Thislegendary autobiography of M. W. Niemann earned nomination forthe National Book Award. It's a comic epic of sex, a subversivesaga of love. The mythic author's double-trouble organs--femaleand male both--inspire a battle, inch by inch, from sensitivegirlhood to tough punk in a boys gang, from geeky Harvard Man toalluring mistress of scientists and scions, from underagephysicist to stone age archaeologist, from father-motherhoodto fertility goddess, from hunted freedom fighter to visionarytycoon, from infamous prisoner accused of treason...to celebratedwinner of the Nobel Prize in Poetry. These are the tabooconfessions of a literary titan, a poet who pursued science,politics, and wealth. Even Divinity. Brilliant and learned,Hermaphrodeity romps through the disputed geography of sexuntil Millie/Willie, embodying the life force, plumbs theultimate secret of manwomankind.

Hermaphrodeity

Contemporary

iUniverse

This is a controversial study of Agnelli and the network of Italian power. Friedman makes a series of startling allegations about Europe's most glamorous businessman and uncrowned king of Italy. The author was named "Young Journalist of the Year" in 1982. It is the story of a remarkable Italian dynasty, of intrigue and alleged improprieties at the pinnacles of international finance and politics; of dealings with prime ministers, with the White House, and the Pentagon and Moscow; and of the unholy alliances Agnelli has made with dictators such as Colonel Gadaffi of Libya. Above all, it is the story of a relentless drive to expand and crush the opposition. Agnelli's empire has been accused of skirting the edges of the law but some examples have never been documented. No Italian has dared to call into question Italy's "de facto" royal family, and many foreign journalists have been charmed and "sweetened" by Agnelli's people into silence.

Mandarin

The account of how London, Washington & Rome brushed aside both laws & stated policies in a relentless quest to arm Saddam Hussein throughout the 1980s -- & even weeks before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Explains how the politics of oil & money dictated the West's attempt to 'embrace Saddam in a cocoon of moderation', & then mount a cynical cover-up to hide the truth from Parliament & Congress. Reveals how the Thatcher & Bush governments allowed lethal technology & equipment to flow to Iraq, in the face of explicit warnings that the goods could be used in Saddam's nuclear & chemical warfare projects.

Spider's Web: Bush, Saddam, Thatcher & the Decade of Deceit

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Diane Pub Co.

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Hermaphrodeity: The Autobiography of a Poet

Agnelli and the Network of Italian Power

Berlusconi: The Epic Story of the Billionaire Who Took Over Italy

Berlusconi: The Epic Story of the Billionaire Who Took Over Italy

Hermaphrodeity: The Autobiography of a Poet

Agnelli, Fiat and the Network of Italian Power

Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq

Hermaphrodeity

Agnelli and the Network of Italian Power

Spider's Web: Bush, Saddam, Thatcher & the Decade of Deceit