H.W. Brands: "The Prez: Machiavelli Visits The White House"

Acclaimed historian H.W. Brands visited GVSU's Hauenstein Center on December 10, 2014 for this American Conversations keynote about the advice Machiavelli would offer the President of the United States by applying lessons from "The Prince" to the challenges facing the nation's highest office today.

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3:32, if you don't care to hear yet another introduction

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There is a one hour episode of The Twilight Zone called "He's Alive" where a mysterious figure appears to a young fascist agitator played by Dennis Hopper to give advice that reminds me of Brand's description of Machiavelli appearing to Obama to give advice. In
"The Twilight Zone" episode the mysterious figure is revealed as Adolf Hitler. Great episode about terrible men.

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good work

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Brands gets a lot of mileage out of his standard introductory remarks.

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yee haw

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I am not sure I agree with mr Brands his analysis on the Petticoataffair.