![]() Erica Benner illuminates not only the life of Machiavelli but the complex and cruel political world in which he operated.-Avi ShlaimĮrica Benner's enthralling and moving evocation of Machiavelli's turbulent career reveals how much he is our contemporary. ![]() She's as well-versed in this author's writing style and writing mind as readers could ask of any biographer.įascinating, remarkable. ![]() ![]() a fantastic reader of Machiavelli's very varied literary output. In Be Like the Fox, the most accurate and compelling portrait of Machiavelli yet, Benner recounts the gripping story of a brilliant political thinker, showing. Like Machiavelli's own writings, Benner's is a meditation on the virtues and flaws of various forms of government and ambitious men who will rule at will unless checked by institutions.Įxcellent. The result is a rich, vivid, and endlessly surprising portrayal of the man and his times.īenner's eminently readable book serves as an introduction to Machiavelli and offers plenty of fresh insight even for those sure they know him and his work. She interweaves his own words with those of his contemporaries, as well as setting him in the context of his world. fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox.Įrica Benner convincingly argues there was a great deal more to Machiavelli. Lively, compulsively readable, unshowily erudite.-Terry EagletonĪ ripping read. ![]()
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