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The fascinating story behind Italy's lurch towards fascism

During the final years of the Second World War, a decisive change took place in the Italian left, as the Italian Communist Party (PCI) rose from clandestinity and recast itself as a mass, patriotic force committed to building a new democracy. This book explains how this new party came into being. Using Rome as its focus, it explains that the rebirth of the PCI required that it subdue other, dissident strands of communist thinking. During the n...

OctoberBy: David BroderCan an angry, disaffected, self-destructive young man find hope and solace at an insane asylum when he doesn't believe they can possibly exist?It is 1983, and Derek is twenty-one and at war with existence itself. If he is vanquished, he lives. If he is victorious, he dies.October challenges all the life-affirming ideas we have been imbued with by calling into question the notions that life has value and meaning, that lov...

During the final years of the Second World War, a decisive change took place in the Italian left, as the Italian Communist Party (PCI) rose from clandestinity and recast itself as a mass, patriotic force committed to building a new democracy. This book explains how this new party came into being. Using Rome as its focus, it explains that the rebirth of the PCI required that it subdue other, dissident strands of communist thinking. During the n...

It is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future. The last Labour Minister said it was a good thing if young people emigrated, to stop them `getting under our feet', one recent Prime Minister said that young Italians should not invest their hopes in securing a stable job, for that would be `boring', anyway. Examining Italy's history since the end of the Cold War, Italy is the Future argues that its dismal situation should not be u...

Multiparty Politics in America examines the roles that third parties have played in U.S. elections past and present and their prospects for the future. It presents unique and detailed coverage of the Reform, Green, and Libertarian parties' goals and campaign strategies, discusses the kinds of reforms that would help them become more viable, and advances the debate over whether the U.S. should have a two-party or multiparty system.

From Simon & Schuster, Behind the Front Page is David S. Broder's candid look at how the news is made.The author, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David S. Broder, looks at how the press handled various political stories of the seventies, and discusses the ethical issues faced by journalists—an exploration just as relevant now as it was then.

This is an exploration of how initiatives are remaking America's democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics funded by moneyed interests, pursuing their own agenda.