That Fine Italian Hand

“Nourishing antipasti before the feast of an Italian visit.”
—San Diego Union

No other people over so long a history have shown a greater knack for survival than the Italians. In this wryly affectionate book, Hofmann reveals his adopted countrymen in all their glorious paradoxes, capturing their national essence as no other book has done since Luigi Barzini's classic, The Italians. The national art of "arrangement"—dodging taxes, double-dealing, working only as hard as one must—is counteract...