Niccolo Machiavelli died on this day in 1527. He was 58. Machiavelli wrote the book on political ruthlessness. Today, The Prince is required reading on many college campuses. He once said, "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Machiavelli appears at age 44 in A Book of Ages, right before an anecdote about Ronald Reagan hosting the TV coverage of the opening of Disneyland. Machiavelli appears again at age 58.
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- Eric Hanson has been an illustrator and writer for more than twenty years. His artwork has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Spy, the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Gourmet, the Believer and other publications. His work has appeared regularly in juried annuals from Communication Arts, Society of Publication Designers, Luerzer’s Archive (200 Best Illustrators Worldwide,) Print, I.D., A.I.G.A., and American Illustration. Design clients include, Aesthetic Apparatus, Duffy, Robert Valentine, Pentagram, Ogilvy, Stoltze Design, AirConditionedLA, Fallon, Paul Davis, Louise Fili, Kate Spade, Barney's, Tolleson, Landor, Willams Sonoma, Barneys, Nordstrom, Target, Alfred A. Knopf, Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York Review Books, Chronicle, Random House and Pantheon. The illustrations and text on this blog are the property of Eric Hanson, who holds the copyright©. His fiction and satire have been published by McSweeney's, the Atlantic, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, The Paris Review, and others. He is the author of A Book of Ages, which was published by Random House in 2008.
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