Mondo Agnelli

The fascinating story of a century-old automobile dynasty Fiat is one of the world''s largest automakers, but when it made headlines by grabbing control of a bankrupt Chrysler in 2009 it was unknown in the U.S. Fiat’s against-all-odds swoop on Chrysler---masterminded by Sergio Marchionne, the Houdini-like manager who saved Fiat from its own near-collapse in 2005 – has made the automaker one of the most unlikely winners of the financial crisis. Mondo Agnelli is a new book that looks at the chain of unpredictable events triggered by the death of Gianni Agnelli in 2003. Gianni, the charismatic, silver-haired power broker and style icon, was the patriarch who had lead the company founded by his grandfather in 1899. But Gianni''s own son had committed suicide. Without a mature heir, the dynasty and Fiat were rudderless. Backed by Gianni''s closest advisors, his serious, shy, and determined grandson John plucked Marchionne from obscurity. Together, they saved the family