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<b>The Prince<br><br></b>Here is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, <b>The Prince</b> even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince…a king…a president. <br><br>When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. The prince he envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral values; his prince would be man and beast, fox and lion. Today this small sixteenth-century masterpiece has become essential reading for every student of government and is the ultimate book on power politics.<br><br>This Bantam Classic edition of <b>The Prince</b> includes selections from Machiavelli’s <b>Discourses</b> as well as an introduction and notes by the translator, Daniel Donno.