492 Great Things About Being Italian

By Boze Hadleigh

492 Great Things About Being Italian is fun, informative and catnip for 17 million Italian-Americans. It follows in the footsteps of other successful books aimed at this minority proud of its remarkableand ongoing!heritage. It comprises 492 (as in 1492 ) individual people, things, places and phenomena that make one proud to be Italian (or half-Italian, which adds millions more to the target market).

But one doesn’t have to be Italian to enjoy this book, any more than one has to be Jewish to love rye bread! Italy is Americans’ second-favorite travel destination outside North America, and Italian foods, celebrities, entertainment, etc., are popular with most everyone.

It’s also the kind of book that once you peek inside, you won’t be able to read just one entry of the 492it’s like potato chips!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: Sep 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781510700802

Boze Hadleigh

Boze Hadleigh is an American journalist writer of celebrity gossip and entertainment.Hadleigh has an M.A. in journalism and has traveled to more than 60 countries. He has published 18 books and has written for more than 100 magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including TV Guide, Playboy, and Us Weekly. He won $16,400 as a contestant on the March 20, 1998 episode of the game show Jeopardy!He lives in Beverly Hills, California and Sydney, New South Wales. His latest books are Broadway Babylon (2007), and Mexico's Most Wanted (2007). Hadleigh's books have been translated into 14 languages, and half of his first 16 books have been made into television specials and documentaries in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere.