AcknowledgmentsCh. 1: IntroductionCh. 2: No Superficial Attractions and Ornaments: The Invention of Modernity in Machiavelli's Realist StyleCh. 3: No One Is in Charge Here: Ryszard Kapuscinski's Anatomy of the Courtly StyleCh. 4: In Oratory as in Life: Civic Performance in Cicero's Republican StyleCh. 5: A Boarder in One's Own Home: Franz Kafka's Parables of the Bureaucratic StyleCh. 6: ConclusionNotesIndex