Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imperialism? Nonsense. A cynical sacrifice of ideology to power-lust? More nonsense. Russia was protecting peace by strengthening her own hand and by exposing the "Municheers." She was protecting the liberty of Poland by forestalling an imminent Munich--since the only ultimate aim of such another debacle would be a four-way partition of Russia herself...
ACCENT ON POWER-Valeriu Marcu-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy's struggle for unity. Others, like Author Valeriu Marcu, consider Machiavelli a single-track political mind whose curious obsession with the pure mechanics of power is his first-class ticket to genius...
...Prince does not really settle these differences, since Machiavelli planted his ideas so diplomatically that readers expecting something diabolic in the book are sometimes disappointed. But since it came off the Vatican presses in 1532, politicians of all shades have found the Prince such a helpful manual of power, how to get and how to keep it, that it has shared their admiration with only one other book, von Clausewitz's On War. Napoleon called it "the only readable political book." Lenin told his Bolsheviks to read the Prince "as an antidote to stupidity...
...Machiavelli, younger son of an impoverished middle-class family of Florence, became a clerk in its government. For 14 years he sorted ambassadors' reports, paid secret agents, inspected fortresses and accounts. Sometimes the Signory sent Machiavelli on diplomatic missions. At the Vatican he began his firsthand study of power politics under such masters as Pope Alexander Borgia and his alleged son Cesare. Cesare Borgia was Machiavelli's model for the Prince...