(Two books on Machiavelli)
Whatever It Takes
By Tim Parks
You won’t find anyone shrewd enough to adapt his character like this, in part because you can’t alter your natural bias and in part because, if a person has always been successful with a particular approach, he won’t easily be persuaded to drop it.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/22/machiavelli-whatever-it-takes/
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50383899-machiavelli?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=hz6HVxUAUW&rank=1
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