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Machiavelli: The Prince

Advice to a new ruler on how power is won and kept, looking at how people act rather than how they should.

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Volume
21 of the 1990 set
Author
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
Work
The Prince written 1513; published 1532

Ideas: Power and rulers Kinds of government Virtue and character

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