The New Machiavelli. How to Wield Power in the Modern World: Jonathan Powell

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside `the bunker` of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli`s influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair`s Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing on his own unpublished diaries.

Taking the lessons of Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in fifteenth-century Florence, Powell shows how these lessons can still apply today. Illustrating each of Machiavelli`s maxims with a description of events that occurred during Tony Blair`s time as Prime Minister, The New Machiavelli is designed to be The Prince for modern times.