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Author Frei, Matt.

Title Getting the boot : Italy's unfinished revolution / Matt Frei
Edition First edition
Published New York : Times Books, [1995]
©1995

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Description xxiii, 273 pages ; 25 cm
Summary Absurd? Of course. A keen assessment of the dangers facing Italy as it sought to shrug off a thousand-year tradition of ingrained political corruption? Absolutely. And the Love Party congress is only one of the places Matt Frei will take you as he plumbs Italy's recent past and collective psyche to discover how Tangentopoli came to be built. In Getting the Boot Frei tells the full story, and along the way he discovers what makes the Italians Italian. Not since Luigi Barzini's classic The Italians has a writer so successfully captured and recounted the ineffable qualities that make Italy and her people what they are
Welcome to the founding congress of the Love Party, held at a Rome discotheque in February 1992. Brainchild of three prominent women in the Italian political and cultural establishment, the Love-Party was just one of the protest parties springing up in the wake of the massive corruption scandal called "Tangentopoli" (Italian for "Bribesville"), which had landed a third of the national parliament and thousands of businessmen in jail. So what if the party's leaders - honorary president La Cicciolina ("the Little Bunny Rabbit"), general secretary Moana Pozzi, and Barbarella, secretary for propaganda and external relations - were all porno stars? The Italian crisis overwhelmed petty concerns. As Moana Pozzi put it: "The rigid structure of party politics that prevailed in this country for four decades has been shattered by corruption and by the end of communism. The danger is that this so-called revolution of ours will fizzle out in a coitus interruptus."
Analysis Bribery
Corruption
Cultural identity
Italy
Overseas item
Political change
Political ethics
Notes Includes index
Subject Political corruption -- Italy.
SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 1976-1994. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069018
Author Fershleiser, Rachel.
Smith, Larry, 1968-
LC no. 94047381
ISBN 0812923871 (acid-free paper)
Other Titles More six-word memoirs by writers famous & obscure
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OTHER TI Smith magazine. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008060179