“Reading the book is a rite of passage for New York’s political class, a pledge to learn the art of politics as it is practiced in big cities, not textbooks. To display the book prominently is to signal that you, too, understand how politics works” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/nyregion/power-broker-tv.html …
I just wish Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith would rename their “Dictator’s Handbook” to “Rules for Rulers,” because that’s the power brokering book signal I want to see https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/161039044X/ …
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