Book Description
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.