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Alan Ryan was warden of New College, Oxford University, and professor of political theory. The author of On Politics, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, he currently teaches politics at Princeton University.
A brief and pithy summary of the contributions of Niccolo Machiavelli... a teaching resource as well as a concise and readable introduction to its subject. Alan Ryan captures Machiavelli's hold on the modern moral imagination... We are still drawn to Machiavelli because we sense how impatient he was with the equivalent flummery in his own day, and how determined he was to confront a problem that preoccupies us too: when and how much ruthlessness is necessary in the world of politics. -- Michael Ignatieff
