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The Stakes: Thoughts on Machiavelli

The American Mind

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Are We in a Situation Where a Commentator Turns a Character Into a Person?

Struuss is at liberty to dramatize or use another author as a character, he says. When is that legitimate? Enit not legitimate? And why is it done? Some of the answers to some of those questions can be found in strauss' book self,. writes David Frum.

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