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"Machiavelli in America traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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New York :
Algora Publishing,
[2014]
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| 520 | |a "Machiavelli in America traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the 'ends justify the means, ' and that any manner of fraud, violence or corruption must be utilized in attaining and retaining power. People, he assured us, are so mean, small and selfish that they will only act under necessity, so the successful prince must force the population, through whatever means necessary, to follow his dictates. He maintained that the most powerful form of fraud was the appearance of religiosity and said that the successful prince must hold no art higher than that of war. In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution and "legal" fraud and corruption. Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission (2010) and the Super PACs it spawned, the massive amounts of money ('power's master key'), the intermingling of the language of religion and war, and the 90% negative advertising of the 2012 Presidential campaign (channeling Machiavelli's dictum that the adversary must be 'assassinated, ' though in contemporary America by character assassination) and even Barack Obama's Machiavellian machinations are looked at in light of the Renaissance political philosopher's ideas. The last section of the book offers a response to this kind of thinking, with a specific, implementable program that will begin to devolve the power of American democracy back to the people and away from the shrinking numbers of oligarchs who control the political system through Machiavellian means and vast amounts of money"--Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction; Le Plus Ça Change; The Immutability of Human Nature and Today's America; Machiavelli: Because It Works; Human Constancy: The Amygdala; It Is Better to Be Feared than Loved; Machiavelli on the Brain; A Fundamental Problem; Machiavellian Politics; Chaos and Control; Chaos and Control II; Emotional Maturity: Elusive and Rare; Truth; A Response to Machiavelli; Chapter One: Niccolò Machiavelli; The Works; The Prince; The Prince and the Church; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius; Other Important Writing; Machiavellian Thought; The Tutor of Princes. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Moses: The Tutor of PrincesVirtù; War and Religion; The Language of Politics; Machiavelli's Influence on Later Thinkers; Chapter Two: Machiavelli in America; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; John Adams; James Madison; Alexander Hamilton; Machiavelli in America Today; Machiavellian American Leadership; War and the Language of Politics; Propaganda; Patriotism and Religion; The Ends Justify the Means; Political Parties; Freedom and Violence; America, Machiavelli and Fraud; Fraud and the American Voter; Machiavelli: Because It Works; George W. Bush: An American Prince. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Ends Justifies the MeansAppearance v. Reality; Religious, but No Mystic; God and War; Fear; America's Dark Artists: Other Politicians; President Obama's Machiavellian Foreign Policy; America's Dark Artists: Political Operatives; Karl Rove; Rove's Wisdom; Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; Rove's Brain; Ledeen, God and the USA; An American Oligarchy; American Oligarchy: The Super PAC; Working Against the Common Good; The Media; The Media and Reality; All Things Not Being Equal; Media Fragmentation; The Media and the Language of War; The Media and Real War; The Role of the Media. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter Three: The Threshold of a New Era?Sanity v. Spirituality; Things May Be Getting Worse; Hidden in Plain Sight; Things are Getting Worse: Advertising; A Spiritually Desiccated Age; Where Can We Turn?; Power Corrupts Completely; Why Try; A Story; We Try Because We Must; Is There Hope?; Why We Can Hope; Reclaiming Spirituality; Chapter Four: The Call for a Moral Ombudsman; The Problem; _GoBack; The Amygdala: Redux; Practical Mysticism -- what can we do?; Machiavellian Democracy; A Response to Machiavelli; The Call for a Moral Ombudsman; Finding the Moral Center; An Agreed-Upon Moral Code. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a How Would It Work?Inserting the Moral Center; A Response to Machiavelli -- Using Machiavellian Methods; Heuristic Proposals and Successful Activism; Reality: As Seen on TV; Freedom of Information; Machiavelli for the Machiavellians; Co-option: Advertising; Co-option: Language; Co-Option: Leveraging Power; Co-option: History; The Media; It's a War; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index. | |
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