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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).
Under the most Machiavellian theory, the election of a Democratic Congress in 1998 would be bad for Gore, since he would have to run against Speaker Gephardt in 2000.
It is also fitting that the character chosen by the authors of Shakespeare in Charge: The Bard's Guide to Leading and Succeeding on the Business Stage as a role model for CEOs is Henry V. Hal, as he is called, is widely acknowledged to be the playwright's most Machiavellian hero.
Henry V is, in fact, Shakespeare's archetype of the perfect Hero-King precisely because of his Machiavellian qualities (which certainly are present)--Henry understands, as he explains during his tour of the army before Agincourt, that the moral demands upon a King are very different from those upon ordinary men.
Is Henry the archetype of the Hero, Machiavellian or otherwise?