Pub Date: March 23, 2021
Dewey: 320.1
LCCN: 2019944002
Lexile Code: 1430
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 8.20" L x 5.50" W ( 0.90 lbs) 320 pages
BISAC Categories:
Political Science | World | European | History and Theory | General | Philosophy | Political
Series: Restless Classics
Description:
Restless Classics presents a trenchant new edition of Machiavelli's most powerful works of political philosophy, including The Prince and selections from Discourses on Livy, introduced by New Yorker writer and biographer of Che Guevara, Jon Lee Anderson.
Brief description:
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher and writer of the Renaissance period. As a young Florentine envoy to the courts of France and the Italian principalities, he witnessed firsthand how people could be united under a powerful leader. This vision motivated his writing on acquiring and maintaining political power.
Review Quotes:
"The staying power of The Prince comes from ... its insistence on the need for a clear-sighted appreciation of how men really are as distinct from the moralizing claptrap about how they ought to be."
--Alan Ryan, author of On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present