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The Prince
- By: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,385
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,360
From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, or a president.
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You have to know what you get with The Prince
- By Cody Brown on 02-10-15
- The Prince
- By: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
A Classic Treatise on Power Politics
Reviewed: 09-05-19
Although written 500 years ago it is still relevant. The Italian, French and German rulers of Italy during the Renaissance used the same tactic of maintaining control of their people, gaining and controlling states as the tyrants of today. Machiavelli is a must read for anyone wanting to learn how the laws and rules of the rulers are different, and must be different, from the ruled. "Might makes right," was true then and is true now.
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