The leather-bound book "The Sovereign. Reflections on the first decade of Titus Livius" by N. Machiavelli

Written more than five hundred years ago, the treatise "The Sovereign" has long turned from a guide to creating a strong centralized Italian state into a handbook for politicians and businessmen around the world, and the name of its author has become a household name. "Machiavellianism" is now called a policy based on disregard for morality and the cult of brute force to achieve their goals. However, the Italian thinker was not a cold cynic who considered treachery and treachery to be the main qualities of a ruler. Niccolo Machiavelli recognized the republic as the best form of a strong state, whose citizens would have a high degree of freedom. And to achieve this ideal, you can use any ways and means, without thinking about moral principles and civil rights. His ideas on the principles of capturing, retaining and effectively applying state power, based on a subtle understanding of human psychology, are relevant today.