Word: machiavelli
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Cliff is a clothier, Dick runs the moviehouse, Ted is retired. Bill is a school man...On last Thursday morning, Ted thought they all ought to read Machiavelli's The Prince to enlarge their understanding of real political intrigue, a guide to contemporary Washington. If some other, lesser man than Carter were in the White House, thought Ted, we would have had a little army down in Nicaragua by this time, a Machiavellian notion...
...team. But what was really bothersome, said bill, was why Carter had not fired those men earlier. Why did somebody else have to tell Carter to fire his Cabinet, and who was that somebody-Hamilton Jordon? For a moment in the Ideal café it seemed as thought Machiavelli had met his equals...
...Machiavelli said that a strong leader is needed at the birth of an organization or at a time of severe crisis. "In the U.S. now," says Josiah Bunting, "there are proportionately as many Hamiltons, Jeffersons and Franklins as in 1776. But there is nothing which calls their kinds of talents and energies automatically into the public sector. They have available chairs of classics at Brown University and directorships at Gulf Oil, what have you." A Southern Governor agrees: "It was probably much easier for David Rockefeller to be chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a powerful position in which...
...Machiavelli wrote for a prince, but he wasn't the prince himself," she said...
...documenting the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school segregation, the legal system has been an inspiring force for Richard Kluger. His latest novel, Star Witness, traces the life and crimes of Feminist Lawyer Tabor Hill. A woman with a hair-trigger wit, she could give lessons in politics to Machiavelli. An affair with a judge, a partnership in an exclusive firm, legal aid to the poor-she does it all, and she does it well. So does Kluger, who knows the layout of the corridors of small-city power down to the decibel level of the lunches...