[PDF] Machiavelli In America eBook

Author : Thomas Block
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political culture
ISBN : 9781628940664

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Machiavelli advised us that people are so mean, small and selfish that they will only act under necessity, so the successful prince must force the population, through whatever means necessary, to follow his dictates. This book traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the 'ends justify the means,' and that any manner of fraud, violence or corruption must be utilized in attaining and retaining power. He maintained that the most powerful form of fraud was the appearance of religiosity and said that the successful prince must hold no art higher than that of war. In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution and "legal" fraud and corruption. Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, the Supreme Court's 'Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission' (2010) and the Super PACs it spawned, the massive amounts of money ("power's master key"), the intermingling of the language of religion and war, and the 90% negative advertising of the 2012 Presidential campaign (channeling Machiavelli's dictum that the adversary must be "assassinated," though in contemporary America by character assassination) and even Barack Obama's Machiavellian machinations are looked at in light of the Renaissance political philosopher's ideas. The last section of the book offers a response to this with a specific, implementable program that will begin to devolve the power of American democracy back to the people.

Author : John Lamberton Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2004-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521834856

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Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher :
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Political science
ISBN :

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The commentary (p. 1-234) is followed by Pansini's translations based on the 1772 edition published in London under title : Tutte l'opere di Niccolò Machiavelli.

Author : Thomas Block
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1628940689

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Machiavelli advised us that people are so mean, small and selfish that they will only act under necessity, so the successful prince must force the population, through whatever means necessary, to follow his dictates. This book traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the 'ends justify the means,' and that any manner of fraud, violence or corruption must be utilized in attaining and retaining power. He maintained that the most powerful form of fraud was the appearance of religiosity and said that the successful prince must hold no art higher than that of war. In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution and "legal" fraud and corruption. Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, the Supreme Court's 'Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission' (2010) and the Super PACs it spawned, the massive amounts of money ("power's master key"), the intermingling of the language of religion and war, and the 90% negative advertising of the 2012 Presidential campaign (channeling Machiavelli's dictum that the adversary must be "assassinated," though in contemporary America by character assassination) and even Barack Obama's Machiavellian machinations are looked at in light of the Renaissance political philosopher's ideas. The last section of the book offers a response to this with a specific, implementable program that will begin to devolve the power of American democracy back to the people.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2010-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781451518139

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Inside re:Organizing America: A Plan for the 21st Century you will find a practical guide to addressing and achieving the change that America hopes for. Originally written by one of the great civil servants of all time, re:Organizing America outlines a specific agenda centered on the proper role of government in American life. From this basis general concepts are outlined, including the need a stable civic structure, the centrality of ethical ideas, and the proper use of the military. This seminal work will open you mind to a new understanding of what is and what could be.

Author : John Greville Agard Pocock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0691172234

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Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, which Pocock calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the works of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican ideology in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance and he relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in eighteenth-century thought. This Princeton Classics edition of The Machiavellian Moment features a new introduction by Richard Whatmore.

Author : John Calhoun Merrill
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The Princely Press sets forth in an unusual manner some of the basic tenets of Machiavelli as they might apply to modern-day American journalism. The interview format permits Machiavelli (in 1520) to expound on such journalistic topics as journalists, journalistic power, press freedom and responsibility, self aggrandizement, objectivity, audiences, propaganda, ends and means, and ethics. Machiavelli's answers are based on his ideas about politics expressed especially in his two best-known works, The Prince and The Discourses.

Author : Nelson A. Blue
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : 9781880849194

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The Machiavellian Way to the Best Possible America Machiavelli's ghost presents the perfect guide for conservative Republicans. The master begins by revealing the true Republican goal and principles. He then shows the value of lies, distortions, personal attacks and hypocrisy for promoting the conservative agenda. Learn why compassion demands unemployment; the masses must be kept poorly educated; welfare, Medicare and social security must be abolished. Learn how to manufacture facts, statistics and quotations; try enemies in the press; distort testimony to create damning evidence; appeal to racial fears and prejudices; always assume the moral high ground.

Author : Bernard W. Wishy
Publisher : Louisiana State University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807119235

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From the formation of the first American colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the Reagan "revolution" and beyond, Americans have struggled with two opposing dreams: unlimited growth and escape from big government. Bernard Wishy here provides the first comprehensive study of how we have alternately pursued, won, lost, debated, and reclaimed those dreams during almost four centuries of American life. Rich in deep historical and political insight and refreshingly nonpartisan, Good-bye, Machiavelli traces the distinctly American tension between government growth - in tandem with economic, demographic, and geographic expansion - and our contradictory distrust of such activity as hostile to free enterprise and the Jeffersonian ideal of minimal government.