Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews and Walter Isaacson's author-subjectrelationship with Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of SilvioBerlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who hasdominated Italian life for the past twenty years. Berlusconi has cooperatedwith the bestselling author and award-winning journalist in the telling of hislife story - warts and all. From the bunga-bunga parties to his most secretmoments with world leaders, the book is rich in anecdotes and revelationsinvolving Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Geroge W. Bush, Vladimir Putin,Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and many others.

Starting from the bottom in his incredible rise to power, Berlusconi wasa 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 Milaninto a world-class soccer club. And that was all before he entered and survivedthe squalid swampland of Italian politics, becoming the longest-serving ItalianPrime Minister in history, and generating, arguably, the most controversy ofany world leader today.