TY  - BOOK
AU  - Machiavelli,Niccolò
AU  - Parks,Tim
TI  - The prince
T2  - Penguin classics deluxe edition
SN  - 9780143105862
AV  - JC143 .M38 2009
U1  - 320.1 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Political science
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - fast
KW  - Early works
N1  - Translated from the Italian
N2  - "An infamous Renaissance classic, The Prince shocked Europe upon publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli even came to be regarded by some as an agent of the Devel, his name taken for the intriguer "Machevill" of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideals, but with a regime that would last, The Prince has become the Bible of realpolitik, and still retains its power to alarm and instruct"--Cover, p. 2
ER  -