LONATE POZZOLO – The color of the title, green, is a clue. The name, Umberto (complete with photos), is a certainty even before knowing that Aurora Lussana, journalist and author of the bookfor years he worked alongside Umberto Bossi, «the man who invented the North», says the subtitle of the volume published by Piemme.
Pop novel also for “non-Lega supporters”
Operation nostalgia? A desire to open up and showcase the entire Northern League and proto-League reliquary? Or rather a book that, in the 40th year of the League’s foundation, it should be read by those who believed in those ideals, by those who fought them politically, by those who knew the Senatur or by those who perhaps even just came across it in following, even only as a voter or militant of another party, one’s political path.
A novel, in some pages one might even say a popular novel, which dreams, tells, reconstructs and restores a man who was a leader with his strengths and weaknesses. Lussana, who was also Bossi’s secretary, outlines the man, the leader, but also the political context of Italy in which Umberto Bossi was “born” and grew up to become one of the protagonists of the Second Republic. And of all this, even of today’s League, Aurora Lussana, without ever hiding her Northern League membership, but also without falling into partisanship, spoke in the in-depth episode of Malpensa24 TV.
