Strange bedfellows in history

Machiavelli and Franklin and several more

Most people are at least familiar with the name Machiavelli. I studied The Prince in high school and again in university and still have the book.

I’ve been writing about power the last couple of days, and I thought I’d find my copy of the Florentine’s 16^th-century treatise on power and politics, take it off the shelf, and peruse it. A few things stood ou…