LEADER 04769nam 2200541 450 001 9910465353503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62894-068-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000148356 035 $a(EBL)1678733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1678733 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1678733 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10859801 035 $a(OCoLC)878263579 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000148356 100 $a20140428h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMachiavelli in America /$fThomas Block 210 1$aNew York :$cAlgora Publishing,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-62894-067-0 311 $a1-62894-066-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction; Le Plus C?a 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: Niccolo? 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 327 $aMoses: The Tutor of Princes Virtu?; 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 327 $aThe Ends Justifies the Means Appearance 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 327 $aChapter 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 327 $aHow 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 330 $aMachiavelli in America traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770's) 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 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical culture 676 $a320.973 700 $aBlock$b Thomas$0915257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465353503321 996 $aMachiavelli in America$92051460 997 $aUNINA