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Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan. Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism, the coming of fascism, imperial adventures, defeat in wartime, and reconstruction as American allies. Highlights ofMachiavelli's Children include new accounts of the making of postwar Japanese politics-using American money and Manchukuo connections-and of the collapse of Italian political parties in the Clean Hands (Mani Pulite) scandal.The author also tells the more recent stories of Umberto Bossi's regional experiment, the Lega Nord, the different choices made by Italian and Japanese communist party leaders after the collapse of the USSR, and the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Ishihara Shintar on the contemporary right in each country.

J4600.70 --- J4121 --- J2284.70 --- Political leadership --- -Political leadership --- -Leadership --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- leadership and loyalty --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- History --- -History --- -#A0507PO --- -Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Leadership --- #A0507PO --- Italy --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Japan --- Geschichte 1800-2000. --- Internationaler Vergleich. --- Leadership politique --- Leiderschap. --- Political leadership. --- Politische Führung. --- Rezeption. --- Histoire --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Machiavelli, Niccolò. --- Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai. --- 1800-1999. --- Italien. --- Italy. --- Japan. --- JP / Japan - Japon --- IT / Italy - Italië - Italie --- 92 --- Geschiedenis. --- Histoire. --- History. --- 92 Geschiedenis. --- 92 Histoire. --- 92 History. --- Geschiedenis --- Italie --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle --- Japon --- Benso, Camillo --- Itō, Hirobumi --- Yamagata Aritomo --- Rossi, Alessandro --- Ōkubo Toshimichi --- Shibusawa Eichi --- Giolitti, Giovanni --- Hara Kei --- Mutō Sanji --- Kishi Nobusuke --- Agnelli, Giovanni --- Ayukawa Gisuke --- Mussolini, Benito --- De Gasperi, Alcide --- Yoshida Shigeru --- Fanfani, Amintore --- Occhetto, Achille --- Fuwa Tetsuzō --- Bossi, Umberto --- Berlusconi, Silvio --- Ozawa Ichirō --- Ishihara Shintarō --- Itō, Hirobumi --- Yamagata, Aritomo --- Ōkubo, Toshimichi --- Shibusawa, Eiichi --- Hara, Takashi --- Mutō, Sanji --- Kishi, Nobusuke --- Aikawa, Yoshisuke --- Yoshida, Shigeru --- Fuwa, Tetsuzō --- Ozawa, Ichirō --- Ishihara, Shintarō