The Prince is a look at power politics and statecraft from the perspective of the sovereign.

Within the book are timeless principles of leadership, what a ruler must and must not do to secure their place as the prince of their dominions.

The Prince is the most famous work from Medieval Italian political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, and was the text from which the word "Machiavellian" was coined.

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