A Really Bad Book on Machiavelli — And the President Who Channels It

LA Progressive
Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read

What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness (2000) by Stanley Bing

Ipicked up this mercifully short (and cheap) book at a book sale recently, because I used to teach about Machiavelli and was curious how the author would deal with him. Since the cover quoted Entertainment Weekly

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