TY  - GEN
AU  - Samuels, Richard J
AU  -  Richard J Samuels
TI  - Machiavelli's children:  leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan / 
SN  - 0801434920
AV  - JN5345 SAM 2003
CY  - Ithaca
PB  -  Cornell University Press
KW  - Political leadership
KW  - History -- 19th century
KW  - History-- 20th century
KW  - Italy
KW  - Japan
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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