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Title: The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now by Carnes Lord ISBN: 0-300-10007-8 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Summary: In theory people rule, in practice leaders rule
Comment: What if someone was able to go back into The Prince, the timeless book of advice to politicians written in 1500's about the rule of the Medici family in Florence, Italy, and insert examples of modern day leaders and nations for the city-states, princes, and rulers described by Niccolo Machiavelli? As author Carnes Lords writes in the beginning of his book: 'The theory of democracy tells us that the people rule. In practice, we have leaders who rule the people in a manner not altogether different from the princes and potentates of times past.' There are many superficial pop books on the implications of Machiavelli's thought on management, business, war, and politics. Carnes Lords has written a readable work of depth that is a potential modern classic focused around the problem of executive decision-making and America's role in the world. Like Machiavelli, Lords covers a broad range of contemporary leaders from Singapores's Lee Kuan Yew, Japan's Nakasone and Tanaka, the former USSR's Boris Yeltsin, and Britain's Margarent Thatcher along with such class thinkers as Alexander Hamilton, Aristotle, and Tocqueville, and of course, Machiavelli is cited throughout. Unlike Machiavelli however, largely absent from the book is advice on how to manipulate the public. Lords worked for the National Security Council for President Reagan and for national security affairs in the H.Bush, Sr. administration. In Machiavellian fashion however(beware of those who flatter you), the book does not languish partisan praise on these leaders. Lords is critical of the mass media as an unelected fourth estate, academic political scientists, and instant gratification leaders unwilling to disadvantage anyone. Highly recommended.
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Title: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ISBN: 0553212788 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Surprise, Security, and the American Experience : by John Lewis Gaddis ISBN: 0674011740 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 23 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris ISBN: 0743257499 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 11 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Anti-Americanism by Jean Francois Revel, DIARMID CAMMELL ISBN: 1893554856 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham by Thomas L. Pangle ISBN: 0801873282 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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