{"product_id":"machiavellis-virtue-9780226503691","title":"Machiavelli's Virtue","description":"Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli's Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli's thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new.\"-Hadley Arkes, \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mansfield's book more than rewards the close reading it demands.\"-Colin Walters, \u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation.\"-Roger Kimball, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMansfield, Harvey C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHarvey C. Mansfield\u003c\/b\u003e is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli's Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e and has translated \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Discourses on Livy\u003c\/i\u003e (with Nathan Tarcov), and \u003ci\u003eAlexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e (with Delba Winthrop), all published by the University of Chicago Press.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491626881298,"sku":"9780226503691","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe2c2c7e-2a7c-4c1b-bbd2-0e5f037cea34.jpg?v=1730545058","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/machiavellis-virtue-9780226503691","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}