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by Umberto Mucci (Author)
This book is a selection of the best 100 interviews conducted through four years by the author, either in the US and in Italy, for the online platform We the Italians www.wetheitalians.com. Each interviewee has a different interesting angle, story or role useful to analyze the relationship between Italy and the US, from diverse thematic of geographic points of view. Each interview is a tiny brick of the wall that shows that when Italy and the US meet and work together, the outcome is wonderful and several good things happen. The Italian community in the US, comprehending either the Italian American one and that of the Italians born in Italy and just recently arrived in the US, is a prestigious group made by several millions of positive people linked by a wonderful Italian heritage and an American dream. The 100 successful personalities interviewed in this book are dedicated, passionate for one or more aspects of Italy, and everyone of them represent something useful for the Italians who live in Italy nowadays. Two flags, One heart is the pay off of We the Italians: it represents the sense of loving two different countries and somehow belonging to both of them, a story that has been describing the lives of the Italians in America for over a century. After these 100 interviews, the author's opinion is that being Italian AND American (some of the interviewees have just one passport, but all of them love the country they don't officially belong to) is a gift, a blessing and something that will never cease to be beautiful.
Author Biography
Umberto Mucci has a degree in Political sciences and international relations and an Advanced degree in Marketing and Communication. He is the Founder and CEO of We the Italians. He represents in Italy the Italian American Museum of New York: after the fundraising organized by the museum to help Abruzzo in 2009, he monitored the whole process of delivering the money, restoring the artwork and organizing the transport and the exhibition in New York. He has been the Co-Director of "èItalia for USA", a bimestral magazine regarding Italy in the US, and is Co-Founder and has been Secretary General of Fondazione Roma Europea. He has been Head of International Relations of Innovarte for the exhibition "Italian Logos - Testimonies of the art to excel", and Head of the Diplomatic section of the magazine "Romacapitale". Umberto Mucci has been publishing his interviews, with important leaders in one of the several aspects regarding relationship between Italy and the US, on the online newspaper "L'Opinione delle Libertà". He is guest lecturer at Accent, where he lectures about the Italian emigration in the US and about the actual Italian presence in the US to students from Michigan State University, University of Minnesota and Santa Barbara City College. He has been moderator and panelist to several public events in Italy and the US, and speaks Italian, English, Spanish and a little bit of French.
