Here is
the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even
today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to
be a prince . . . a king . . . a president.
When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved
Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical,
not idealistic. In The Prince he
envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral values; his
prince would be man and beast, fox and lion.
Today, this small sixteenth-century masterpiece has become essential
reading for every student of government, and is the ultimate book on power
politics.
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