{"product_id":"the-prince-hardcover","title":"The Prince: Hardcover","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"288\"\u003eWritten by Niccolò Machiavelli in a time of political collapse, \u003cem data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"183\"\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the clearest accounts of authority, force, reputation and human nature ever set to paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"343\"\u003eWhat does it take to gain power . . . and keep it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"348\" data-end=\"399\"\u003eMachiavelli answers that question without illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"489\"\u003eThis is not a book about good and evil. It is a book about what holds and what fails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"583\"\u003eIt is a study of power as it is. How it is gained, how it is secured, and how it is lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"775\"\u003eThis Trumpet Publishing House edition presents the text with care and discipline. Difficult passages have been clarified where needed without turning Machiavelli into something he is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"976\"\u003eEach chapter is followed by Trumpet's concise Core Doctrines, drawing out the governing principles within Machiavelli's argument and helping the reader see not only what is said, but how it works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"981\" data-end=\"1014\"\u003eThis is not a decorative classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1019\" data-end=\"1040\"\u003eIt is a working book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1045\" data-end=\"1148\"\u003eTo read \u003cem data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1065\"\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/em\u003e is to understand what holds power together . . . and what causes it to fall apart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trumpet Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":67710819041584,"sku":"9781764873215","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-prince-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}