It was Machiavelli’s luck to be disappointed by every statesman he encountered throughout his life—that was why he had to write The Prince . If the book endeavors to dissociate political action from common morality, the question still remains today, not why, but for whom Machiavelli wrote. For princes, or for those who want to resist them? Is the art of governing to take power or to keep it? And what is “the people?” Can they govern themselves? Beyond cynical advice for the powerful, Machiavelli— Google Books

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