There is no book on Machiavelli quite like this one, with exposition and analysis of every major work. Zuckert's writing is admirably clear, the depth of her knowledge about the history and background of the texts amply evident. In establishing the coherence of Machiavelli's work, her interpretations of particular passages are surprising and enlightening.
Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University ... Read moreWith the publication of Machiavelli's Politics, political scientist Catherine H. Zuckert offers a magnificent contribution not just to the field studies surrounding Machiavelli, especially the history of political thought, but also, more broadly, to the reader's understanding of modem political life... Free of partisanship or polemic, her book is the fruit of a disinterested scholarly quest for the real Machiavelli conducted through a synoptic, historically contextualized, and literarily sensitive exegesis of his major writings.
Los Angeles Review of Books If a reader wants a synoptic and novel take on Machiavelli, Machiavelli's Politics is the place to go. Erudite, clearly written, original, and ambitious, the book is a remarkable work...Machiavelli's Politics is a remarkable achievement, and anyone writing on Machiavelli will need to reckon with it
Perspectives on Politics If a reader wants a synoptic and novel take on Machiavelli, Machiavelli's Politics is the place to go. Erudite, clearly written, original, and ambitious, the book is a remarkable work. Zuckert's approach, as she states, is a synthesis of historical, rhetorical, and theoretical approaches
Perspectives on Politics Machiavelli's Politics is an exceedingly ambitious book
comparable in many ways with Zuckert's magnum opus on Plato. In the case of Machiavelli, the devil is in the details, and this is one of the few scholarly works to carefully and thoroughly tackle Machiavelli's entire corpus. But the book is much more than an indispensable scholarly resource. It is a work of controversy that scholars and others interested in Machiavelli will find challenging and exciting, regardless of whether one is persuaded by her claims.
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