Fortune is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History is a book by Roger Masters.
Roger Davis Masters, born June 8, 1933, studied at Harvard , served in the U.S. Army and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. After teaching at Yale , he has been on the faculty at Dartmouth College as well as Cultural Attaché at the American Embassy in Paris . He is... currently the Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus and Research Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth. Roger Masters has made deep and wide-ranging contributions in social science. The central concern of his career has been how biological circumstances influence individual behavior and social outcomes. Masters began his career in political philosophy as a student of Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago. His dissertation and subsequent book helped demonstrate the importance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in modern thought. He translated and edited influential new editions of Rousseau’s works , and later co-edited the only complete English edition of his Collected Writings .more
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