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Niccolò Machiavelli

Machiavelli's Realism

This volume surrounds Old Nick's brief for obligatory badness with essays by the editor and three scholars, each of whom suggests it is time to rethink Machiavelli's rethinking. While granting Machiavelli's importance, the commentators are uniform

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Machiavelli Revisited

With great power comes great responsibility. But Washington is adrift and our country in search of a strategy. Foreign-policy heavyweight Les Gelb wittily channels a master to update the classic realpolitik definition of power.

Prudence and the Prince

Carnes Lord Takes the gloves back off Machiavelli and gives us something we can use.

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February 13, 2012