Machiavelli's blunt handbook on how rulers gain and keep power, breaking with idealism to describe politics as it actually is. Its realism made 'Machiavellian' a byword for cunning statecraft.
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Machiavelli's blunt handbook on how rulers gain and keep power, breaking with idealism to describe politics as it actually is. Its realism made 'Machiavellian' a byword for cunning statecraft.