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.