The Literature Network - Interview with Historian and Author Michael Ledeen

Interview with Historian and Author Michael Ledeen

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From: Special Report with Brit Hume (Fox News Network)
Date: 19990503
Author:Brit Hume

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HUME: When candidates for the U.S. military's elite Delta Force have completed the most brutal and exhausting part of their training, an ordeal which only about 25 percent get through, they are given a book to read and then are tested on it. It is Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince," the classic study of power and its effective exercise.

Michael Ledeen, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, takes note of this in his new study of Machiavelli entitled "Machiavelli ...

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