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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Introducing Machiavelli about Clearing, Inventory, Book with the genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government.
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conversations.value: Clearing Inventory! New Book, but has minor flaw, like bent or scratched cover. Total Satisfaction Guarantee! Quick shipping.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Introducing Machiavelli
  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 all!" Was he not influenced by Machiavelli's ideas to at least some extent?
  As we shall see, Machiavelli had his fans too, and many of these, like the philosopher Francis Bacon, were not thugs.
  WE ARE MUCH BE HOLDEN TO MACHIAVELLI AND OTHERS, THAT WRITE WHAT MEN DO, AND NOT WHAT THEY OUGHT TO DO 
  NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI WROTE ABOUT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, MAN, THE WAY IT REALLY IS, WITHOUT ALL THE BULLSHIT.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Although a constitutional monarchy may be a satisfactory compromise for a time, a republic is the best guarantee of maintaining the freedom and security of its citizens. Tyrannies, by contrast – whether as the rule of a single man or subjugation by a foreign power – result in weakness, poverty and decline.
  EXPERIENCE SHOWS THAT CITIES HAVE NEVER INCREASED IN DOMINION EXCEPT WHILE THEY HAVE BEEN AT LIBERTY.
  Liberty, in the form of self-government, is the ultimate goal that "excuses" any actions that help to bring it about. Note that Machiavelli's idea of liberty is not the modern one of an individual political "right".
  In Machiavelli's opinion, the best example of this in human history was the Roman Republic. His goal, and his hope, is therefore to discover from its history "the practical lessons" needed to restore something of its success and glory today. Put very bluntly, **The Prince** offers advice to leaders for a secure state, whereas the **Discourses** offers advice to citizens for a free state.
  I DEDICATE MY BOOK TO MY FRIENDS IN THIS GARDEN, WITHOUT WHOSE SPUR AND HELP IT WOULD NEVER HAVE APPEARED.
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conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Finally, he would be amazed at our complacency about our precious "rights". Machiavelli's warning is clear.
  Oscar Zarate thanks Hazel Hirshorn and Maria Reidy at the Italian Culture Institute for picture research.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about UNLESS, FULFIL, CIVIC.
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conversations.value: Finally, he would be amazed at our complacency about our precious "rights". Machiavelli's warning is clear. 
  UNLESS WE FULFIL OUR CIVIC DUTIES TO OUR COMMUNITIES – AND THAT INCLUDES FORCING OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO LEGISLATE FOR AND ENFORCE, WAYS THAT ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE US TO DO SO – WE CAN HARDLY COMPLAIN WHEN WE LOSE OUR RIGHTS TOO. 
  Oscar Zarate thanks Hazel Hirshorn and Maria Reidy at the Italian Culture Institute for picture research.