The Prince resonates through the ages - timeless advice. Unfortunately not so short but I would put Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in the same class along with some early Karl Marx especially the 18th Brumaire of Louise Napoleon Bonaparte - "Hegel remarks somewhere that all events and personages in history occur twice - he forgot to add the first time as tragedy, the second as farce" and "the weight of dead generations lay like a nightmare on the brain of the living".
I read all 5 volumes when I did the Scottish Enlightenment at Uni. Too few people mention "the invisible hand" which is a critical part of his thesis. Trump should read it on Tariffs.
The Prince resonates through the ages - timeless advice. Unfortunately not so short but I would put Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in the same class along with some early Karl Marx especially the 18th Brumaire of Louise Napoleon Bonaparte - "Hegel remarks somewhere that all events and personages in history occur twice - he forgot to add the first time as tragedy, the second as farce" and "the weight of dead generations lay like a nightmare on the brain of the living".
Wealth of Nations is on my list!
I read all 5 volumes when I did the Scottish Enlightenment at Uni. Too few people mention "the invisible hand" which is a critical part of his thesis. Trump should read it on Tariffs.
Has anybody recommended The Discourses yet? Machiavelli's advice for republics might be quite timely just now!
Interesting to have the Prince intro with examples of realist policies below :) Highly recommend the Audible course on Machiavelli by William R. Cook.