Word: machiavellis
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...Winning would give my career a vital boost" seems to have been the motto which determined his entire course of action. It is hardly surprising that his alma mater, the Met, should decide not to display this disciple of Machiavelli's book in its shop. Persistence and ruthlessness marked him from the beginning as the epitome of the successful collector and curator. Despite the excitement and acventure of the contest for the cross, the value of King of the Confessors lies in the questions it raises about the acquisition process. Hoving has written a more provocative book than he intended...
Discussing political thinkers from Plato--"designated hitter of the philosphers' lineup"--to Hobbes, Locke, Machiavelli, Burke and Madison, Will traced the roots of the prevailing belief that government should be neutral on social values and why he feels this viewpoint is "wrong...
...Mona Lisa's, it was also enigmatic. Behind the aging Huckleberry Finn face was as shrewd and calculating a mind as has ever won a war or run a country. Dwight David Eisenhower, his diaries make clear, could have given a few lessons in statecraft to Machiavelli...
...Rome from A.D. 37 to 41; Nero, full-time Emperor and sometime violinist who struck sour notes in Rome from 54 to 68; Attila the Hun, who led his barbaric tribe from 433 to 453; Ivan the Terrible, nogoodnik Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584; Catherine de Medicis, Machiavelli-mentored Queen of France from 1547 to 1589 and noted butcher of Protestants; Abdul-Hamid II, murderous ruler of the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1909; Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader from 1929 to 1953; Adolf Hitler, an automatic club member as leader of Nazi Germany from...
...been called mysterious, elusive and unknowable-as convoluted as the great Charente River, which flows through his native town. He has been compared with exceptionally diverse figures: Niccolo Machiavelli, whose name is synonymous with conniving politics; Lorenzo the Magnificent, Renaissance Florence's benevolent, art-loving ruler; Chateaubriand, 19th century France's aristocratic writer-statesman; Alexander Kerensky, who first led Russia to a democratic revolution that quickly succumbed to the Communists. In the bestiary of epithets used to characterize French politicians, he has emerged as the "chameleon." His recondite politics is inevitably labeled Florentine in the press. His most...