Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli\'s Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics.
Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism\'s anodyne rehabilitation."-Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal. . . .
The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new."-Hadley Arkes, New Criterion "Mansfield\'s book more than rewards the close reading it demands."-Colin Walters, Washington Times " A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . "The book brings together essays that have mapped Mansfield\'s] paths of reflection over the past thirty years.
Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli\'s thought.
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.
Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli\'s Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics
