The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli

The most famous line of Machiavelli`s The Prince reveals both his extraordinary insight and his willingness to disregard convention. Written as an instructional manual for the Florentine ruler Piero de` Medici, the insights of The Prince range across a variety of subjects from politics to military strategy to the history of early sixteenth-century Italy.
Subsequent political leaders across the globe, including Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon Bonaparte and Joseph Stalin, scrutinized The Prince and used its ideas in their own governments.
Thought-provoking and astute, The Prince is a must-read work for students of modern politics.