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Niccolò Machiavelli · 1532

The Prince

3.84Goodreads

About 3 hr 15 min read

140 pages

Classics Nonfiction Philosophy

Machiavelli studies power without pious varnish, asking how rulers gain states, keep them, lose them, and survive fortune's turns.

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