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Prince, The
 

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Non-Fiction
Historical

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etext at: http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm Refreshing in its directness, yet often disturbing in its cold practicality, The Prince sets down a frighteningly pragmatic formula for political fortune. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals for the 20th century, this calculating prescription for power remains today, nearly 500 years after it was written, a timely and startling lessons in the practice of autocratic rule that continues to be much read and studied by students, scholars and general reader as well.