Paddy Machiavelli

Author : John Drennan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 071715808X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paddy Machiavelli – How to Get Ahead in Irish Politics written by John Drennan and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The good, the bad and the cynical – how to get ahead in Irish politics It might appear strange that a 16th-century Italian political philosopher should provide us with a roadmap to political power in Ireland, but as John Drennan's tongue-in-cheek account Paddy Machiavelli makes clear, the gap between the parish pump and the Renaissance palazzo is a narrow one indeed. In fact, observe the Irish body politic for long enough and the lines between the Florentine's faceless hero and our own Dáil aristocrats begin to blur ever so slightly. A veteran of countless Leinster House power plays, Drennan takes inspiration from Machiavelli's The Prince, dispensing invaluable advice for the aspiring politician, such as how to cultivate the cloak of being an 'ordinary decent skin', how to choose your scapegoats carefully, and how to be a straight-talker whilst embracing vagueness. This hilarious account of the compromises that the Irish politician has to make in order to seize power is not just a 'celebration' of the politics of cynical amorality; it's a timely reminder of the role we play in choosing our leaders. In this wildly entertaining book, celebrated Sunday Independent columnist John Drennan is at his best. The definitive guide to success in Irish politics, Paddy Machiavelli will have you laughing and crying all the way to the ballot box. 'Drennan's storytelling style is stage Irish, and like a culchie Cicero, he laces his brilliance with bile. It is the politics of Paddy and in the tradition of Hall's Pictorial Weekly via Craggy Island.' Gerard Howlin, The Sunday Times 'There is a fierce intelligence and fierce independence at work here. No one escapes his gimlet eye, and he brings to the whole bizarre ecosystem of the Dáil a unique perspective, that of the insider who remains resolutely outside.' Brendan O'Connor, The Sunday Independent 'If Paddy really wants to know the story, generally he asks Drennan first.' Lise Hand, Irish Independent 'Drennan is one of the best pundits in Ireland. He has an understanding of politics that is both instinctive and intellectual.' Pat Leahy, The Sunday Business Post '[Drennan] reads the political game like the sort of bookie who always leaves Cheltenham with a full satchel.' Ivan Yates, Newstalk

Author : Patrick Boucheron
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519523
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli written by Patrick Boucheron and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time. Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never ceased to read him to pull ourselves out of torpors. But what do we really know about this man apart from the term invented by his detractors to refer to that political evil, Machiavellianism? It was Machiavelli's luck to be disappointed by every statesman he encountered throughout his life—that was why he had to write The Prince. If the book endeavors to dissociate political action from common morality, the question still remains today, not why, but for whom Machiavelli wrote. For princes, or for those who want to resist them? Is the art of governing to take power or to keep it? And what is “the people?” Can they govern themselves? Beyond cynical advice for the powerful, Machiavelli meditates profoundly on the idea of popular sovereignty, because the people know best who oppresses them. With verve and a delightful erudition, Patrick Boucheron sheds light on the life and works of this unclassifiable visionary, illustrating how we can continue to use him as a guide in times of crisis.

Author : Michael Jackson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365516
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelliana written by Michael Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelliana is the first comprehensive study of the uses and abuses made of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in management, primatology, leadership, power, as well as in novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, children’s books, and more.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107145864
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli: The Prince written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated for the first time after thirty years, this new edition includes a thoroughly revised introduction by Quentin Skinner.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108667848
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli: The Prince written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. The Prince remains his best-known work, and throws down a challenge that subsequent writers on statecraft and political morality have found impossible to ignore. Quentin Skinner's introduction offers a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text both as a response to the world of Florentine politics and as a critical engagement with the classical and Renaissance genre of advice-books for princes. This new edition also features an improved timeline of key events in Machiavelli's life, helping the reader place the work in the context of its time, in addition to an enlarged and fully updated bibliography.

Author : Pasquale Villari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli written by Pasquale Villari and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pasquale Villari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Niccolò Machiavelli and His Times written by Pasquale Villari and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Classics Press
ISBN 13 : 1938412060
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published by Classics Press. This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat and philosopher during the Renaissance, and a senior official in the Florentine Republic. After being imprisoned, and then exiled from politics, he wrote "The Prince" in 1513. While a keen commentator on political and military matters, Machiavelli also wrote poetry and comedies which were popular in his lifetime, unlike his political works. Still, his first love was ever and always politics.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822309475
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-27 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan Gilbert.”—Dante Germino, The Journal of Politics “A most remarkable achievement.”—Felix Gilbert, Renaissance Quarterly