Restless Classics presents a trenchant new edition of Machiavelli's most powerful works of political philosophy, including The Prince and selections from Discourses on Livy , introduced by New Yorker writer and biographer of Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson.
Few authors achieve such notoriety that their name becomes an adjective.
A Machiavellian politician is not simply one who is conniving; the term also refers to a tyrant who is enamored with all the power he (.