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Author:   J Clark
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.674kg
ISBN:  

9781118018521

ISBN 10:   1118018524
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   13 December 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Agnelli Family Tree x Timeline xiii Prologue 1 Part I The Power of a Family 11 Chapter 1 The Scattered Pieces 13 Chapter 2 A Dynasty Is Born 31 Chapter 3 From Salad to Skinny-Dipping 55 Chapter 4 Gianni Agnelli, King of a Republic 73 Chapter 5 A Lament like a River 97 Chapter 6 Only One Person Rules at a Time 115 Chapter 7 The Wedding of the Year 127 Part II The Power of an Individual 137 Chapter 8 Unfixable Fiat 139 Chapter 9 Running on Empty 161 Chapter 10 You Deal with It, and You Move On 181 Chapter 11 Sergio Marchionne’s Two-Billion-Dollar Bet 205 Chapter 12 A Completely Different Beast 215 Part III The Power of a Government 231 Chapter 13 Skin in the Game 233 Chapter 14 The Spirit of Ubuntu: I See You 263 Chapter 15 Sixteen Models in 14 Months 285 Epilogue 309 Notes 315 Acknowledgments 339 About the Author 345 Index 347

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'The story of this flamboyant, well-known family from Turin, replete with love, lawsuits, suicide and sprezzatura - the Italian word for effortless nonchalance - that elevates the book into a must-read.' (The National, April 2012)

Author Information

JENNIFER CLARK was the Italian Bureau Chief for Dow Jones & Co. for ten years until 2010, covering all aspects of Italian business, politics, and finance for The Wall Street Journal, wsj.com, and Dow Jones Newswires. Prior to working at Dow Jones, Clark was a banking reporter at Reuters in Milan, and documented Berlusconi's entry into politics for Bloomberg News in the early part of the 1990s. From 1988 to 1993, she was bureau chief at Variety, the U.S. entertainment weekly, covering Italy's film and television industries from Rome.

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