Reviews for The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now

The average rating for The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-20 00:00:00 Margie Avellino As someone with little familiarity with the history of political thought, I'm really enjoying this right-tilting introduction. That's probably why I'm enjoying this book so much. There's a lot of Aristotle and Marx going head to head with the occasional What Would Machiavelli Do? As a bonus, this author worships Reagan and condemns Clinton, and argues that in the West we've achieved the classless, egalitarian ideal. What a hoot! The best is saved for last: p226 "... the defense of liberal democracy will remain first and most urgently a security question, just as it has in the past... generous immigration policies that reflect these societies' liberal ideals have contributed to the problem, in some cases creating a breeding ground and favorable operating environment for terrorism and globally organized crime... "Perhaps more worrisome than the problem of unassimilated minorities as such, however, is the multiculturalist mentality that makes sensible public discussion of such issues virtually impossible today. This mentality, which finds special virtue in non-Western cultures and tends to favor preferential treatment for presumptively oppressed racial and sexual groups, represents at bottom an indifference or hostility to the values and traditions of Western liberalism that is dismaying, to say the least." Gold.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-09 00:00:00 Jeanmarie Condon somewhat flat and disappointing