The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

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Paperback | 1 August 1984 | Edition Number 1

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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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"[Machiavelli] can still engage our attention with remarkable immediacy, and this cannot be explained solely by the appeal of his ironic observations on human behaviour. Perhaps the most important thing is the way he can compel us to reflect on our own priorities and the reasoning behind them; it is this intrusion into our own defenses that makes reading him an intriguing experience. As a scientific exponent of the political art Machiavelli may have had few followers; it is as a provocative rhetorician that he has had his real impact on history." -from the Introduction by Dominic Baker-Smith

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Introduction to the Mentor Edition	p. 7
The various kinds of Government and the ways by which they are established	p. 33
Of Hereditary Monarchies	p. 34
Of Mixed Monarchies	p. 35
Why the Kingdom of Darius, occupied by Alexander, did not rebel against the successors of the latter after his death	p. 43
The way to govern Cities or Dominions that, previous to being occupied, lived under their own Laws	p. 46
Of New Dominions which have been acquired by one's own arms and ability	p. 48
Of New Dominions acquired by the Power of others or by Fortune	p. 52
Of those who have attained the position of Prince by villainy	p. 59
Of the Civic Principality	p. 63
How the strength of all States should be measured	p. 67
Of Ecclesiastical Principalities	p. 69
The different kinds of Militia and Mercenary Soldiers	p. 72
Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and Native Troops	p. 77
The Duties of a Prince with regard to the Militia	p. 81
Of the things for which Men, and especially Princes, are praised or blamed	p. 84
Of Liberality and Niggardliness	p. 86
Of Cruelty and Clemency, and whether it is better to be loved or feared	p. 89
In what way Princes must keep Faith	p. 92
That we must avoid being despised and hated	p. 95
Whether Fortresses and other things which Princes often contrive are useful or injurious	p. 105
How a Prince must act in order to gain reputation	p. 110
Of the Secretaries of Princes	p. 114
How Flatterers must be shunned	p. 116
Why the Princes of Italy have lost their States	p. 118
How much Fortune can do in human affairs and how it may be opposed	p. 120
Exhortation to liberate Italy from the Barbarians	p. 124
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