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Halfway through 2009, what do media dealmakers have to show?
May 3, 1469: Political philosopher Niccolo Macchiavelli is born in Florence, Italy. After the downfall of the Medici regime in 1494, Macchiavelli organized the defense of Florence for Pope Alexander VI and Cesare Borgia. Macchiavelli’s observations of the republic’s rulers formed the basis of his most famous work, The Prince, in which he argued that a leader’s prime motivation should be to amass and retain power—not necessarily to act ethically. While many modern politicians and corporate executives admire Macchiavelli’s ideas, they conveniently ignore how the theories worked out for the theorist himself. Macchiavelli produced The Prince in an effort to...
