The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
The New Machiavelli is a 2010 book by Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Powell uses Machiavelli's The Prince as a frame for lessons on wielding power, drawn from his years inside 10 Downing Street.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “"The Book of the Week." Jonathan Powell's "The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World". The author is the highly intelligent former Chief of Staff to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair. It's actually two books in one. An insider's view of life at 10 Downing Street and the decisions to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it's also a sort of a super self-help book on how to wield power, as the title suggests. Very intelligent.”