The National Interest, September 22nd, 1998
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince. Edited and translated by Angelo M. Codevilla, commentary by William B. Allen, Hadley Arkes, and Carnes Lord (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 151 pp., $11.00.
This new translation of Machiavelli's The Prince appears as part of a series called "Rethinking the Western Tradition." Now, the Western tradition is rather odd as traditions go, for it is a tradition of subversion. The tradition that Machiavelli was heir to was a compound of classical and Christian thought. Neither of the founders of those traditions endeared themselves to the holders of power...
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