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PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312252315

ISBN-139780312252311

eBay Product ID (ePID)1648855

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Book TitleTocqueville on American Character : Why Tocqueville's Brilliant Exploration of the Amican Spirit

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicInternational Relations / General, American Government / General, United States / General

Publication Year2000

FeaturesRevised

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorMichael Ledeen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-029690

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"This book is a rare pleasure. Like Machiavelli himself, it is both profound and witty, full of down-to-earth wisdom for leaders in all walks of life, and an absolute must for those who care about our future." --Rush Limbaugh " Machiavelli on Modern Leadership slaps modern society across the face with ancient truths about human nature and power. Its honesty takes your breath away and its many stories ring true." --Philip K. Howard, author of The Death of Common Sense "To illustrate his ideas, Machiavelli made it a practice to give two examples, one ancient and one 'fresh.' With a firm grasp on American contemporary domestic and foreign policy, Michael Ledeen has provided what readers of Machiavelli need today-modern or 'fresh' examples. Machiavelli on Modern Leadership goes beyond the Medicis and the Borgias, reaching for intelligent and courageous examples in the corrupt worlds of modern government, business, the armed forces, and religion, to reveal that Machiavelli's warnings are hammering on the door of the twenty-first century." --Sebastian de Grazia, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Machiavelli in Hell, "This book is a rare pleasure. Like Machiavelli himself, it is both profound and witty, full of down-to-earth wisdom for leaders in all walks of life, and an absolute must for those who care about our future." --Rush Limbaugh "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership slaps modern society across the face with ancient truths about human nature and power. Its honesty takes your breath away and its many stories ring true." --Philip K. Howard, author of The Death of Common Sense "To illustrate his ideas, Machiavelli made it a practice to give two examples, one ancient and one 'fresh.' With a firm grasp on American contemporary domestic and foreign policy, Michael Ledeen has provided what readers of Machiavelli need today-modern or 'fresh' examples. Machiavelli on Modern Leadership goes beyond the Medicis and the Borgias, reaching for intelligent and courageous examples in the corrupt worlds of modern government, business, the armed forces, and religion, to reveal that Machiavelli's warnings are hammering on the door of the twenty-first century." --Sebastian de Grazia, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Machiavelli in Hell

Dewey Decimal973

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisIn 1831, Alexis De Tocqueville, a twenty-six-year-old French aristocrat, spent nine months travelling across the United States. From the East Coast to the frontier, from the Canadian border to New Orleans, Tocqueville observed the American people and the revolutionary country they'd created. His celebrated Democracy in America, the most quoted work on America ever written, presented the new Americans with a degree of understanding no one had accomplished before or has since. Astonished at the pace of daily life and stimulated by people at all levels of society, Tocqueville recognized that Americans were driven by a series of internal conflicts: simultaneously religious and materialistic; individualistic and yet deeply involved in community affairs; isolationist and interventionist; pragmatic and ideological.Noted author Michael Ledeen takes a fresh look at Tocqueville's insights into our national psyche and asks whether Americans' national character, which Tocqueville believed to be wholly admirable, has fallen into moral decay and religious indifference.Michael Ledeen's sparkling new exploration has some surprising answers and provides a lively new look at a time when character is at the center of our national debate.

LC Classification NumberE169.1.L49 2000