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| | Silvio Berlusconi |
 | | Silvio Berlusconi, a self-made man with a taste for luxurious living, owner of a huge television empire and, most recently, the man who likened a German MEP to a Nazi concentration-camp guard—small wonder that much of democratic Europe and America has responded with considerable dismay and disdain to his governance of Italy. |
| | While never forgetting the italianità of Berlusconi’s trajectory, he argues that the Italian example is highly instructive for all modern societies. |
| | What Berlusconi represents—the relationship between the media system and politics, the nature of personal dominion at a time of crisis in representative democracy, the connection between the consumer world, families and politics, and the exploitation of the wide-open spaces left by the strategic weaknesses of modern left-wing politics—are, Ginsborg suggests, near-universal. |
| www.versobooks.com /books/ghij/g-titles/ginsborg_p_berlusconi.shtml (315 words) |
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