Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan

by Richard J. Samuels

Book Overview

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 in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801489822
• ISBN13: 9780801489822
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher