From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli’s aim in this classic work was to solve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli structured his insights on the way people are really rather than a perfect of how they should be. This is actually the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly reasonable and prophetic focus on what must be done to be always a prince, a king, or a leader. When Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on command that was practical, not really idealistic. The Prince he envisioned will be unencumbered by normal ethical and moral beliefs. Right now, this sixteenth-century classic has become important reading or listening for every student of authorities, and is the best audiobook on power politics.