Product Description: In this witty and contemporaneous essay, Arnold J. Meltsner, as a modern-day Machiavelli, offers advice to government and corporate leaders on the human pitfalls of seeking, evaluating, and using advice. Drawing examples mainly from the Oval Office and recent history, he examines the factors that affect decision making and proposes rules to help rulers maintain vigilance over their advisers and remain sensitive to the politics of personal influence and persuasion...read more

Product Description: An attempt by scholars and students at Berkeley to develop a useful program of policy research and action in cooperation with Oakland city agencies, to address some of the city's most pressing needs, which could be transferred to other urban areas.