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Cixi has been blamed ever since for her profligate and selfish ways, combined with her Machiavellian rise from concubine to Empress, popularly held to be the cause of China’s weakness and the fall of the last dynasty.
A profile peels away George Pataki's Gomer Pyle exterior to reveal the New York governor's Machiavellian core.
We know that Nixon was a revenge buff who was capable of extraordinarily Machiavellian behavior.
Yet the most Machiavellian proverbs pertain to government, Acton's view of power echoed with a vengeance: Always stroke the head you want to cut off warns one medieval example.
There's something perversely reassuring about a great beauty who had it all--and still ended up a drug-addled wretch manipulated by a Machiavellian butler (Richard Chamberlain).