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Direct democracy can't be thought of as something that belongs to the future.... This is actually the scarcely believable tale of how, in just over three years, a politics dotcom grew to become one of the very most powerful makes in the affairs of the country of 60 million people. At the overall election in Italy this year, Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement, which has its head office on a website, had taken a quarter of the vote - more than Silvio Berlusconi's party. Such is the weight of Grillo's following in the new parliament that his motion was able to block the formation of a new federal government, paralyzing the politics of the nation for more than two months. Inside a fast-moving narrative, John Hooper explains to the story of how an improbable collaboration between an irritated, exhibitionist comedian and a retiring Web specialist had taken Italy by storm. Drawing on comprehensive interviews with Grillo and his publicity-shy co-founder, Gianroberto Casaleggio, he looks at the reasons for the Five Star Movement's giddying rise and highlights both its revolutionary aspirations and natural contradictions. He considers whether Grillo is - as the German publication Der Spiegel branded him - "the most dangerous man Europe", or the pioneer of a digital transformation that will change our lives. John Hooper is Italy Correspondent of the Economist and Southern Europe Editor of the Guardian. He has reported for almost 25 years from the countries of the Mediterranean. His publication, The Spaniards (since modified and modified as The New Spaniards) received the Allen Street Award for a best first work of nonfiction. Hooper is also the author of the best-selling Kindle Sole Fatal Voyage, which explains to the story of the wrecking of the Costa Concordia and was identified in The New York Times as "equivalent parts thriller and elegy".
