Write an essay describing the ideas of the Leaders of the Nation-State as presented by the “Precursors to Fascism”: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Hegel, Wagner, and Nietzsche. To what extent do you think each of their philosophies are valid? With which of their ideas would you disagree and why? Do you think that any of their philosophies are operant in the world today? Which of world leaders of the 21st Century seem to have followed any of the ideas of these thinkers? Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century (4th ed,) Bruce F. Pauley (Malden MA: John Wiley and Sons: 2015,) ISBN: 978-1-118-76592-0