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.
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.
American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy
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.
Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1972, intermittently revised ...
In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change.
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 ...
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.
Explores the reasons why American leaders from the 1700s onwards frequently adopt policies of unilateralism. This book presents explanations for America's invasion of Iraq and defiance of international agreements.
In Beyond Machiavelli, Beryl A. Radin compares policy analysis in the 1960s with its practice in the 1990s, analyzing the transformations the profession has undergone since its birth and offering a provocative conception of its practice ...
The Modern Prince anticipates—at times in startling fashion—the situation facing the Donald Trump administration in an ongoing political drama that has few precedents in the history of the republic.