Clever rulers such as Frederick the Great, for example, have studied Machiavelli's works assiduously and denounced them vehemently.
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Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt’s new book is a thinly veiled critique of Trump.
Vickie B. Sullivan is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University and the author of Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe: An Interpretation of the "Spirit of the Laws" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Machiavelli's Three Romes (Northern Illinois University Press, 1996; Cornell University Press, 2020).