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<p>Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, <i>The Prince</i> is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics.</p><p>As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still...Vis mer