The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny

by Maurice Joly

Book Overview

The Dialogue in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli is the source of the world's most infamous literary forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. John Waggoner's superb translation of and commentary on Joly's Dialogue--the first faithful translation in English--seeks not only to update the sordid legacy of the Protocols but to redeem Joly's original work for serious study in its own right, rather than through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739106996
• ISBN13: 9780739106990
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"