Niccolo Machiavelli, Daniel Donno
The Prince
Mass Market Paperback
(Bantam Classics Sept. 1, 1984)
, Reprint edition
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.
- ISBN
- / 9780553212785
- Pages
- 166
- Weight
- 3.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.1 x 0.4
in.