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THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PRUDENCE

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From: Naval War College Review
Date: 20040401
Author:Sullivan, Vickie B

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PRUDENCE Lord, Carnes. The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 2003. 304pp. $26

In introducing his treatise to its princely addressee, Niccolo Machiavelli describes its contents as deriving both from his "long experience with modern things" (he had served the Florentine republic as an advisor and diplomat) and "a continuous reading of ancient ones" (he is the author of an extensive commentary on Roman history, Discourses on Livy, and The Prince). What Machiavelli says of himself in The Prince, originally published in the ...

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