Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker o

Written in the 16th century, The Prince remains one of the most influential books on political theory. Its author, Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat a

Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as

Machiavelli advised us that people are so mean, small and selfish that they will only act under necessity, so the successful prince must force the population, t

This enlightening new book examines the roots of America's new unilateralism in terms of Machiavelli's theory of state politics.