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GEORGE WASHINGTON : A LIFE 
by Willard Sterne Randall 
A John Macrae Book - Henry Holt and  Company -  
New York, pp. 548
 Willard Sterne Randall, author of a previous work about Thomas Jefferson, reproposes  his captivating style dealing with the epopee of George Washington. The author accomplishes this not easy task cleverly, restoring the object of his study from the myth to the dimension of a person within his complexity.  
A life, that of George Washington, that embodies the American myth “ante litteram”: the “self-made man”, from a poor and plenty of difficulties childhood, through his military dexterity, to the Presidence of a Republic, a born leader, both in war and in peace.  
About Washington King George III said: “He would be the greatest man of the eighteenth century if he took power “. And he was right. 
 
 
BEYOND THE GODFATHER  
di A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini  
Editors University Press of New England,  
Hannover and London, pp. 320
 What does it mean being Italoamerican? Which are the common characteristics?  
It is a mere question of geographical coincidence?  
Or is there something else?  
Those are the question that A. Kenneth Ciongoli (President of the NIAF - National Italian American Foundation; Professor of Neurology, University of Vermont Medical School) e Jay Parini (Annix Professor of English, Middlebury College) want to answer through this publication that reaches, by the means of the experiences of American writers of Italian origins, the roots of “being italoamerican”. 
“Beyond the Godfather” is for those readers who want to understand what does it means being Italians in the nowadays American society and to capture the complex relationship that it has established between integration in the United States context and preservation of the original culture. 

 
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MEDITERRANEAM 
by Angelo Scuteri,  
Editrice Nuovi Autori, L. 18.000, pp. 86 
 
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Angelo Scuteri is a physician and writer and in this book he argues about the philosophy which is at the roots of our publishing house. To be a good physician, it is necessary that the scientific preparation is supported by a strong cultural preparation.  
The Mediterraneam Sea, through its symbolic richness, the millenary traditions of the people who live along its coasts is the scenery where the values, deemed obsolete, are recovered, and it is the starting point to invite the reader to found a way of life more related to the rhythm of the  past even  if inserted in the real social-culture of the present. “Might Mediterraneam Sea appear to any of us and be as an artistic reflection of a rule of world that wins over science, a wisdom that burden itself with pain and brings everybody to recognise one's life as a wanted one, not only as an allowed life”. 

 

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