The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli (also rec’d by Martin Luther King Jr. & Neil deGrasse Tyson )
Buy on AmazonI must have been 15 or so I when got a copy of Machiavelli’s The Prince … It had no relevance to my life in high school, obviously, but I loved the brutal realism of it. I loved the fact that he was looking at human beings as if we are these animals that we are, and he was analyzing it without all the usual guilt – all the usual moralism that’s going on in the world. He was just presenting us as we are. I didn’t really understand experientially what he was talking about but the style, the cla...
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"I must have been 15 or so I when got a copy of Machiavelli’s The Prince … It had no relevance to my life in high school, obviously, but I loved the brutal realism of it. I loved the fact that he was looking at human beings as if we are these animals that we are, and he was analyzing it without all the usual guilt – all the usual moralism that’s going on in the world. He was just presenting us as we are. I didn’t really understand experientially what he was talking about but the style, the cla..."
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