Ledeen, Michael Arthur

Compares contemporary theories about exceptional human character with Niccolo Machiavelli's theories and discusses how modern thinking is similar to Renaissance thinking.

An account of the months in Washington and Tehran before and after the fall of the Shah, based on interviews with American and Iranian officials.

Compares the America that Alexis de Tocqueville saw and wrote about in 1831 with America at the end of the twentieth century.