Synopsis
Refreshing in its directness, yet often disturbing in its cold practicality, The Prince sets down a frighteningly pragmatic formula for political fortune. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals for the 20th century, this calculating prescription for power remains today, nearly 500 years after it was written, a timely and startling lessons in the practice of autocratic rule that continues to be much read and studied by students, scholars and general reader as well.