John T. Scott

John T. Scott is professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is The Routledge Guidebook to Machiavelli’s “The Prince.”

A Darker View of the Renaissance

A new book explores the ugly underside of the Italian Renaissance....

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Poring Over “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland”

John T. Scott samples “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland” by Clay Risen....

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Was the Black Prince Black? And Other Historical Questions

What can a biographer do when their subject is elusive? John T. Scott finds out in his review of Catherine Fletcher's "The Black Prince of Florence."...

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Spirited Away

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Whiskey, Served Neat: A Taxonomy of American Whiskeys

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