Journalist Alan Friedman has inked a deal to write a biography profiling the former prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi. Friedman (pictured, via) devoted more than 15 months to researching his subject; he acquired more than 100 hours of interview records.
Rizzoli will publish the Italian version in October 2015. Hachette Book Group USA will release the American edition in Fall 2015.
Here’s more from the press release: “Written with Berlusconi’s full cooperation, Berlusconi will offer an unvarnished look at the billionaire media mogul’s astonishing life…In the tradition of the Frost/Nixon interviews and with the same unfettered access of Walter Isaacson in his biography of Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman chronicles Silvio Berlusconi’s incredible rise to power from cruise ship crooner to real estate tycoon, from founding the first commercial television network in history to turning AC Milan into a world-class soccer club, and then ultimately becoming the longest-serving Italian Prime Minister in history.”