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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Machiavellians
“Old Nick”
Pre-Machiavelli: Kautilya and the Origins of Realism
The Medici Family, Act II: Catherine de Medici
America’s Founding Machiavellian: Alexander Hamilton
The Perfect Machiavellian: Richard B. Cheney
Chapter 2: Empire Builders
The Holy Warrior: Bernard of Clairvaux
The Most Beautiful Man in the Empire: Ibrahim Pasha
The Kingdom of Spice: Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Iron and Blood: Otto von Bismarck
Chapter 3: Kingmakers
“A Direction That History Did Not Take”: Sir Richard Neville
The Duke of (New) York: James “Big Jim” Farley
The Kingmaker of India: K. Kamaraj
Chapter 4: Spies
The Spymaster: Francis Walsingham
Eminence Rouge and Eminence Grise: Cardinal Richelieu and Father Joseph
Spy vs. Spy: Lawrence of Arabia vs. Wassmuss of Persia
A Spymaster for the Twenty-First Century: Omar Suleiman of Egypt
Chapter 5: Silver-Tongued Devils
The Righteous Pagan: Cicero
Empress of the East: Theodora of Byzantium
Citizen Talleyrand: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
The Ideologue: Leon Trotsky
Chapter 6: The Generals
King Arthur’s Role Model?: Flavius Stilicho
Charles the Hammer: Charles Martel
The Prophet: Saladin
The Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell
The Razor: Hideki Tojo
Chapter 7: The Rebels
The Ronin: Sakamoto Ryoma
The Soul and the Sword: Mazzini and Garibaldi
The Perfect Revolutionary: Zhou Enlai
The Icon: Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Chapter 8: The Truly Evil
The Grand Inquisitor: Tomás de Torquemada
Machiavelli’s Worst Nightmare: “Young” Joe Stalin
Hitler’s Right Hand
Chapter 9: The Fixers
A Twentieth-Century Man: “Dollar” Mark Hanna
Campaigns, Inc.: Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter
Camelot’s Merlin: Larry O’Brien
The Dark Genius: Roger Ailes
The Ragin’ Cajun: James Carville
The Architect: Karl Rove
Chapter 10: Schemers
Old Testament Values: Haman
A Mother’s Love: Agrippina the Younger
The She-Wolf: Isabella of France
The Mad Monk: Grigori Rasputin
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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