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...ITALIANS, by Luigi Barzini. Foreigners often love Italy for the wrong reasons, thinks this brilliant Italian journalist, who goes on to consider his countrymen in damaging detail...
Italy's Reds, who comprise the largest Communist Party in Western Europe, were openly worried by the dumping of the man they had both criticized and supported. Party Leader Luigi Longo said: "The manner in which these changes at the top of the Soviet Party occurred leaves us concerned and critical." Fearful that the new Russian leaders might get overly tough with the West, and thus spoil his party's chances in Italy's nationwide local elections next month, Longo harped on Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" line and desperately reminded Italians that his predecessor, Palmiro Togliatti...
...ITALIANS, by Luigi Barzini. Foreigners often love Italy for the wrong reasons, thinks this brilliant Italian journalist, who goes on to consider his countrymen in damaging detail...
...ITALIANS, by Luigi Barzini. This exuberant book focuses more on individuals than Leonhardt's sociological study...
...family. A couple of drinks, a quiet dinner, brandy and cigars before the inn fire-and imperceptibly, from behind the urbanity and wit emerge the true facts of a marriage in shambles or of a mortal sickness. This is exactly the kind of book that Milanese Journalist Luigi Barzini has written to explain to the U.S. the delights and secret deficiencies of his countrymen's manners and morals...