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050			_aJN5345 _bSAM 2003
100			_aSamuels, Richard J _eauthor
245			_aMachiavelli's children : _b leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan / _cRichard J. Samuels
264			_aIthaca : _b Cornell University Press,
300			_axiv, 456 pages : _billustrations ; 24 cm
336			_2text _arda content _btx
337			_2unmediated _arda media _bn
338			_2volume _arda carrier _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aIn 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
650			_aPolitical leadership _xHistory -- 19th century
650			_aPolitical leadership _xHistory-- 20th century
651			_aItaly
651			_aJapan
700			_a Richard J Samuels _eauthor
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