The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World

by Jonathan Powell

Book Overview

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing on his own unpublished diaries.

Taking the lessons of Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in fifteenth-century Florence, Powell shows how these lessons can still apply today. Illustrating each of Machiavelli's maxims with a description of events that occurred during Tony Blair's time as Prime Minister, The New Machiavelli is designed to be The Prince for modern times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099546094
• ISBN13: 9780099546092
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"