The prince / Niccol?o Machiavelli.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781481542180 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1481542184 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 30 min.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : 2006.
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Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Patrick Cullen. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Political science > Early works to 1800. Political ethics. State, The. |
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Here is the worldâs most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince is 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. The prince he envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral values. Through the years, The Prince has been misunderstood to the extent that Machiavelliâs name has become synonymous with unscrupulous political behavior.
However, it remains essential reading as the ultimate book on power politics. In it Machiavelli analyzes the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. The Prince provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter who controls it or in what era. Included are selections from Machiavelliâs Discourses upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livy.
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