Giannis Boutaris was unique. And he brought this uniqueness into his involvement in politics. This book is an attempt to understand the rare phenomenon of a businessman evolving into one of the most recognizable and contradictory political personalities of the post-dictatorship era, and mainly how he practiced "politics differently," far from party dependencies, with a comprehensive political ethics of his own.

An ethics that differs from grand speeches and ideological certainties, aligning instead with the ethics of realism and acceptance of compromise, when it is the only way to avoid populism. The "politics differently" that Boutaris championed is rather a lesson in a way of life: to have the courage to say what you truly believe, to work for the common good without regard for personal cost, and to trust imagination and creativity.

"The special quality that Levonidas Makris's book brings," as Aris Dimokidis notes in his preface, "is that it not only provides us with the story of a mayor; it shows us the possibility of another politics in Greece. And this possibility is very valuable."