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"In this book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan.".
"Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism, the coming of fascism, imperial adventures, defeat in wartime, and reconstruction as American allies.
Highlights of Machiavelli's Children include new accounts of the making of postwar Japanese politics - using American money and Manchukuo connections - and of the collapse of Italian political parties in the Clean Hands (Mani Pulite) scandal.
The author also tells the more recent stories of Umberto Bossi's regional experiment, the Lega Nord, the different choices made by Italian and Japanese communist party leaders after the collapse of the USSR, and the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Ishihara Shintaro on the contemporary right in each country."--BOOK JACKET.
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Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
2019, Cornell University Press
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Machiavelli's Children: Leaders And Their Legacies In Italy And Japan
May 19, 2005, Cornell University Press
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Machiavelli's children: leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan
2005, Cornell University Press, University Presses Marketing [distributor]
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Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
February 27, 2003, Cornell University Press
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