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MR. BURNHAM is well known as the author of "The Managerial Revolution". He remarks, with a certain bitterness, of the present book that its circulation is not likely to be large. I am not sure whether Montaigne, who held himself detached from the civil wars of his day, may not have had a richer wisdom than Machiavelli; but Mr. Burnham feels that the Florentine, and his successors of the too little known Italian school, Pareto, Michels and Mosca, require this volume of homage. For Mr. Burnham's attempt to develop still further an authentic political science, following in the way of the Chicago school and its derivative, Bertrand Russell, too high praise can scarcely be given.
The Machiavellians
Defenders of Freedom. By James Burnham. Pp. v + 202. (London: Putnam & Co., Ltd., 1943.) 7s. 6d. net.
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CATLIN, G. The Machiavellians. Nature 154, 4–5 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154004b0
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