Word: machiavelli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Failure of a Mission. History has presented the bloody Cesare as diabolical, dazzling and colorful. Author Balchin makes him look like an austere combination of Sir Stafford Cripps and Cesare's own calloused admirer, the scholarly Niccolo Machiavelli. Cesare's fall came when Julius II, a deadly enemy of the Borgias, became Pope. Cesare wound up in Spain, where he was killed in battle...
...Domingo Perón, six times a doctor honoris causa (Argentina has six universities). Arriving by special train with wife Evita, Peró led a motor caravan to the auditorium, through thousands of cheering descamisados. There, in a 70-minute speech, he managed to touch on Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Spinoza. As for himself, he said he was between Hegel and Marx-against both "immoral individualism" and the "insectification of the individual," in favor of what he called "justicialism...
Perle's conception of herself as a combination Machiavelli and Madame de Stael makes White House aides smile quietly. Actually, she plays a more becoming role in the Administration: she entertains Harry Truman and his friends, gives pleasure in doing so, and gets pleasure from it. Said one aide flatly: "She has no more influence, policywise, than that post...
...democratic countries followed wrong policies because they feared defeat in election, Churchill's reports of the actual mechanics of governing, what chances he was willing to take and what risks he could not venture, are in themselves a handbook of political science. They are as worldly as Machiavelli without his cynicism, and as wise as Lincoln, lacking only Lincoln's tenderness, and his doomed and tragic devotion. This book is a major document of our times...
...American Democracy has no hero, only a villain-the American businessman. He is not, says Laski comfortingly, any more villainous than his European counterpart (whose predatory impulses are merely concealed under "greater elegance of form"). But he has, Laski believes, unknowingly "adapted . . . the main doctrines of Machiavelli's Prince." He regards the world primarily as "a market which the combined power of high-pressure salesmanship and cheap mass production will open to him . . . Massively energetic in action," skeptical of theories, he considers most politics as "a wanton interference with the natural laws by which businessmen govern society...