Turning the Tables
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780743237901
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; General; International Relations - General; Business & Economics / General
First sentence: WHEN THE FLORENTINE STATESMAN Niccolo Machiavelli retreated in poverty and political isolation to his family's countryside villa in 1513 and set about writing The Prince, he obviously knew nothing about automobiles, semiconductors, dollar-yen exchange rates, or any of the other issues that have come to characterize the late-twentieth-century economic conflict between the United States and Japan.