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THE MODERN LIBRARY HARDBACK EDITION (Number 65) AS SHOWN ON AMAZON. Introduction by MAX LERNER. 540 pages. Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideal but with a regime that would last, The Prince has become the bible of realpolitik, and it still retains its power to alarm and to instruct.
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THE PRINCE AND THE DISCOURSES
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Modern Library, New York, 1950
ISBN 10: 0394600657
ISBN 13: 9780394600659
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Hardcover
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Modern Library Edition. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Front hinge starting. Small closed tears on spine crown and heel and top rear panel held with tape. Seller Inventory # 307713