01985 a2200241 4500 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC CCL CCL GEN 2023-09-11 Donation 0 JN5345SAM 2003 032855 2023-09-11 00:00:00 c.1 2023-09-11 BK 10956 10956 0801434920 JN5345 SAM 2003 Samuels, Richard J author Machiavelli's children : leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan / Richard J. Samuels Ithaca : Cornell University Press, xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text rda content tx unmediated rda media n volume rda carrier nc Includes bibliographical references and index 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."--Jacket Political leadership History -- 19th century Political leadership History-- 20th century Italy Japan Richard J Samuels author lcc BK 5345 SAM 2003 JN