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How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern PoliticiansHow to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up to date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political wisdom, from the importance of promising everything to
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political wisdom, from the importance of promising everything to everybody and reminding voters about the sexual scandals of your opponents to being a chameleon, putting on a good show for the masses, and constantly surrounding yourself with rabid supporters. Presented here in a lively and colorful new translation, with the Latin text on facing pages, this unashamedly pragmatic primer on the humble art of personal politicking is dead-on (Cicero won)--and as relevant today as when it was written.
A little-known classic in the spirit of Machiavelli's Prince, How to Win an Election is required reading for politicians and everyone who enjoys watching them try to manipulate their way into office.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/21/2012
ISBN: 9780691154084
Pages: 99
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.80w x 0.60d
Review Citations: Christianity Today 04/01/2012 pg. 78
New York Times Book Review 07/29/2012 pg. 15
New York Times Book Review 08/05/2012 pg. 26
New York Review of Books 11/22/2012 pg. 20
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