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Published
Penguin Classics, October 2014
ISBN
9780141395876
Format
Hardcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
17.4cm × 11.3cm × 2.1cm

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Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince is the Bible of realpolitik, a tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, and how to hold on to it in a dangerous world. How can a leader be strong? Is it better to be feared than loved? This work of a fifteenth-century Florentine diplomat is still read today for its shrewd political lessons.

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