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A tactically-minded man creates an instruction manual for action and understanding in the realm of high-lords of kingdoms.

At under 70 pages, this book may be thin but it’s incredibly dense. I found myself reading paragraphs three times before moving on. Although nothing in it surprised me, I can still easily recommend it. It’s been, somehow, given a bad name. I only found a slight tinge of “evil” creeping in at about the half-way mark, but nothing inexcusable.

I understood it well enough to add strong commentary, and to give much improved explanation in the latter half which draws from the former. It’s interesting to me that the author himself didn’t catch on to the trends in his own advice.

Like The Art of War – (~476 BC book), by Sunzi, people have interpreted this text for all manner of uses such as the business world.

• 1910 translation by N. H. Thompson
• Originally published in Volume 36 of The Harvard Classics.
• Niccolò Machiavelli

• ISBN-13 978-0-486-27274-0

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