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"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves" -Machiavelli
Great Ideas
Penguin
September 2005
128 pages
ISBN: 0143036335
Paperback (reprint)
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Literature and Fiction
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They
have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other.
They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.
They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted.
They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers,
pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook
civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's
Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by
some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume
is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design
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literature in great packages at great prices, this series
is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor
the Great Ideas that have shaped the world. Rejecting the traditional values of political theory,
Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the
turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated
treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of
the many Florentine “prophets of force,” he differed from
the ruling elite in recognizing the complexity and fluidity
of political life.
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