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Former Ramsey mayor Richard Muti's fourth book "Essays for my Father: A legacy of passion, politics, and patriotism in small-town America" has been named a 2013 USA Best Book Awards finalist in the Anthologies: Non-Fiction category.   "Essays for my Father" is a collection of Muti's essays about Chris Christie and Jersey-style politics, unne...

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L'Italia, a fronte di un debito pubblico elevato che negli ultimi anni è comunque cresciuto meno che altrove, ha un indebitamento privato molto basso, la metà di quello di Francia e Regno Unito. Secondo uno studio di servizi professionali alle imprese (Kpmg) il "Made in italy" è il terzo marchio più conosciuto al mondo, dopo Coca Cola e Visa. &nbs...

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"Pensate a fumetti misti a fotografie di grandi attori e attrici degli anni '50 e '60 in Italia, strettamente intrecciati e dedicati a storie d'amore strazianti.   Ne deriva il fotoromanzo, un genere tutto italiano che ha goduto di enorme popolarità in Italia del dopoguerra e può ancora contare su un devoto - anche se ridotto - numero di let...

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"The crux of all of Italy's problems," wrote the great Italian journalist Luigi Barzini in his 1964 classic, The Italians, "is why did Italy, a land notoriously teeming with vigorous, wide-awake and intelligent people, always behave so feebly? Why was she invaded, ravaged, sacked, humiliated in every century, and yet failed to do the simple things...

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by Adri Barr Crocetti   Once upon a time you had to go to Italy for biscotti. Thankfully, those days are long gone, and today these iconic cookies can be found in neighborhood coffee shops and restaurants everywhere. But who wouldn't agree that homemade is always better than store-bought? With a copy of Ciao Biscotti, Domenica Marchetti's ne...

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This is a valuable and enjoyable collection of authentic Italian folk music and song for mandolin, suitable for beginners as well as professional musicians. The first and foremost book ever published in the United States on traditional Southern Italian mandolin.   The book includes 36 songs, both instrumental and vocal pieces and delves deep...

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by Jess Fleming   While doing research for "The Splendid Table's" 20th anniversary, I acquired a copy of Lynne Rossetto Kasper's cookbook by the same name, published in 1992, a few years before the radio show began.   The book is as much a cookbook as it is a love letter to Emilia-Romagna, a region in northern Italy that is responsibl...

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Trains have played an important role in Italian history since the first half of the 19th century, when the country started laying down its first railways – State property to this day, although since 2000 private company trains have started running on them.   British writer Tim Parks has recently published a beautiful book about his experienc...

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by Briana Palma   "I don't even consider myself a writer," Marina Viola told me over the phone in November, just weeks before she set off to Italy for another round of speaking engagements to promote her book, "Mio padre è stato anche Beppe Viola."   Despite her humble attitude, there's no denying that Marina has earned her writer's b...

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A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, "Beautiful Land," where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to The Sopranos. The child of Italian immigrants Luzzi straddles these two perspectives to link hi...

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