'The Obama Of Italy'
"He's a highly intellectual, extremely confident, smoothly articulate politician who grew up without a father, then wrote a best-selling book about it." That would be Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome who lost his race for prime minister in this year's Italian elections. The former editor of the newspaper L'Unità, he has written a dozen books of nonfiction; his first novel has just been published in English as The Discovery of Dawn. Philadelphia Inquirer 11/02/08

Posted November 4, 2008 10:06 PM