"De Mita, the political animal" unfolds lightly around the polished story of the elderly protagonist, coloring with so many significant anecdotes a complete and in many ways unprecedented perspective on the figure of the Irpinian leader. In the narration is remembered the childhood time in Nusco, the passage in the Milanese metropolis, the formation and the first political practice, the relationship with the main protagonists of national and international events, past and present. The work ends with a careful and pressing analysis of the current situation and a relentless comparison between the first and second Republic.