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Podcast: Heard Tell
Episode: Heard Tell Podcast: Machiavelli: Myths, Conspiracies, & Politics From Renaissance To Founding Fathers to 2Pac and Today
Description: So you might have heard tell of Machiavelli, or someone acting or accused of being Machiavellian in their dealings, schemings, and intentions, or the shadowy political powers of secret grand strategies to garner and wield power, or the using of evil to get what you want, or maybe as the moniker for 2Pac on his posthumous last album. Thing is, the real story of how a Renaissance-era Florentine politico became the father of modern political thought, philosophy, and what we now call political science. Amanda Griffiths returns to Heard Tell to turn down the noise on the controversy and...