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The Prince
📖 Synopsis
How to seize and keep power without scruples. The political manual that gave us the word "Machiavellian".
✍️ ChatZona's review
Machiavelli described power as it worked in his time and as it continues to work today. Without moralising, without apology, with a clarity that remains unsettling five centuries later. Its brevity is part of its force: in just over a hundred pages it dismantles illusions about virtue and politics. Essential reading not to learn how to be a prince, but to understand why princes — then and now — do what they do.
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