PhD student David Polansky pens book review of 'Machiavelli' for the WSJ

January 15, 2014

Political Science PhD student David Polansky recently wrote a book review of ‘Machiavelli’ by Joseph Markulin:

“The life of a great thinker presents unique challenges to a would-be biographer. Actions and events are the stuff of biographies, yet thoughts, not deeds, are what chiefly make the thinker of interest to us. As Heidegger reportedly said of Aristotle: “He lived, he wrote, he died.”

Niccolò Machiavelli is that rare exception. To paraphrase “The Princess Bride,” his story gives us fighting, torture, poison, revenge, bad men, good men, conspiracies and miracles. All of which is to say that Machiavelli is…”

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Book Review: ‘Machiavelli’ by Joseph Markulin