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 : 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 : 9780521349932
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( 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 1988-10-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.

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 : Pasquale Villari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.WJ/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 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Drennan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717168778
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Betrayal written by John Drennan and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From penalty points to water charges, funding cuts to tax hikes, The Great Betrayal is a cutting assessment of the upheavals, egos and scraps that shaped the 31st Dáil by Ireland's most sagacious political pundit-turned-political operatorAs the curtain falls on this government's term in office, it has fallen drastically out of favour, something that is hard to believe if we cast our minds back just a few years to 2011, when Fine Gael and Labour rode a wave of populist sentiment all the way to Dáil Eireann. No Irish government has ever enjoyed a larger majority – and none has ever so comprehensively squandered its mandate. How did the Coalition fall so far so fast?Written with the unique insight of one of the most original observers of Irish politics, The Great Betrayal provides an entertaining and enlightening narrative of a government that, in the eyes of many, betrayed the hopes of the Irish electorate for a democratic revolution, almost immediately after being elected with a thumping majority.The Great Betrayal is required reading for anyone wondering how it all went wrong and where we might go from here.

Author : Patrick Boucheron
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1590519523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli written by Patrick Boucheron and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 0 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 : 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 : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Branden Books
ISBN 13 : 0937832383
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by Branden Books. This book was released on 2002-07-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Prince" is a political treatise by Machiavelli that is not considered to be representative of the work published during his lifetime, but is the most remembered. The theories in this book describe methods that an aspiring prince can use to acquire the throne, or an existing prince can use to maintain his reign. These theories include defense and military, perceived reputation, generosity, cruelty versus mercy, gaining honors, fortune and a number of other discourses.