Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan - Paperback
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Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious 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...
Samuels is Ford International Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the MIT-Japan Program. He is also the author of "Rich Nation, Strong Army" and The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective, both from Cornell, and winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.
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