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A new book by legendary Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield takes up the challenge of furthering our understanding of Machiavelli’s “enterprise” and how it has shaped our world over the past half millennium.
It is almost redundant to say that Harvey C. Mansfield is the world's preeminent scholar on the thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, certainly in his field of political theory, but recognized as well by such leading historians as James Hankins. In Machiavelli's Effectual Truth: Creating a Modern World, he brings together a number of his essays on Machiavelli. They can be read independently, but their impact is even greater when one reads them in succession.