Italian politician, journalist and writer; former Mayor of Rome and founding leader/first secretary of the Democratic Party. Author of books on music and politics.

Has written books addressing both music (notably jazz) and political figures; public persona combines political career and cultural interests.

Two DeBaser reviews praise Walter Veltroni's books: one about jazz pianist Luca Flores, the other on Enrico Berlinguer. Reviewers highlight Veltroni's humanist voice, his passion for jazz, and his framing of political morality. Both reviews are strongly favorable.

For:Readers interested in Italian politics, political biography, and jazz-related writing.

 "One day an architect who works for the City of Rome, partner of an excellent jazz musician like Nicola Stilo, gave me a CD. She knew my love for Jazz, for music, for the greatness and the suffering of artistic creation. When I started listening to the CD that had been given to me, I realized that something was happening inside me. I didn't know, I didn't know what. A strange melancholy overcame me, a sudden, overwhelming pain." Walter Veltroni

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 Veltroni, here as a writer but inevitably as a politician, seems to see in Berlinguer not only and not so much a Noble Father of our Republic, but more importantly, a model of behavior and consistency that should be imitated by a Democratic Left which, over the last twenty years, seems to have forgotten its true mission.

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