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This is how the philosopher Bertrand Russell ,
in our own century, described Machiavelli's most famous book, The Prince.
Fittingly, one of the people Russell probably had in mind, Benito Mussolini , praised it. He had a strong view about whom the new Prince was meant to be and wrote a foreword to a new edition. This undoubtedly explains the response of Henry Kissinger, for several years the power behind the presidential throne in American politics, to an interviewer's suggestion in 1972 that he was a Machiavellian: "No, not at 4 all!" Was he not influenced by Machiavelli's ideas to at least some extent?
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