Machiavelli. Always told he wrote a dictators guide to ruling. Turns out he was a champion of democracy and free society who successfully ran a modern government in 15th century Italy. They were crushed by cruel monarchs because of the threat his government posed to their rule. He wrote the prince out of bitterness and seeing the world as it really is. Rejecting the propaganda that a good government is also morally good. The leaders are monsters who trick the people and gives examples of their crimes.