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Machiavelli has created a ruthless guide on how to rule the country in his volume the prince. This edition of the prince has three distinct and disparate objectives. Although the prince is a book written for a past time, its concepts remain strikingly useful even today. It describes how to acquire power, create a state, and keep it, and it represents machiavelli s effort to provide a guide for political action based on history and his own experience as a statesman. The prince is a political treatise by niccolo machiavelli, written in 15 and first published in 1532. David maclaine writes that in the novel, machiavelli is an offstage presence whose spirit permeates this work of intrigue and betrayal. The prince is an extended analysis of how to acquire and maintain political power. Niccolo machiavelli audio books, best sellers, author. These are the 10 books on power and influence everyone needs to read lets kick off this article with a small clip from one of my all time favorite tv shows house of cards. Machiavellis discourses on the first decade of livy and guicciardinis considerations of the discourses. Machiavellis discourses and guicciardinis considerations niccolo machiavelli, francesco guicciardini, james atkinson, david sices on. The prince by niccolo machiavelli niccolo machiavelli was the first to clearly decipher politics from ethics by studying politics in such depth and thought. The 10 books on power and influence everyone needs to read. Machiavelli wrote his discourses in exile from florence after the fall of the republican government he had served and to whose principles of order and rule by law he remained committed.
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Being eccentric and banned by the church at its time, the prince examines the laws of power and how power works. The sweetness of power by niccolo machiavelli, 9780875806181, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Machiavelli undoubtedly attracts our attention with his writing. To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as machiavelli s one needs as much commentary about history, political theory, sources, and language as possible.
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