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A 7 page paper which examines why political leaders should read this controversial text. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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experience which would sufficiently prepare them for the demands of the office. As Kennedy and his predecessors and successors have discovered, political leaders must acquire their leadership fundamentals not
by doing, but by first reading. There have been innumerable books written on the subject, but the one that remains the most effective (as well as the most maligned)
is Niccolo Machiavellis sixteenth-century political treatise, The Prince. It was written, essentially, to serve as a step-by-step, "how to" handbook, to instruct Lorenzo de Medici on the edicts of
proper princely leadership. Machiavelli applied his views on human nature and his knowledge of the politics of his time to prepare the young Medici for the challenges, which would
be facing him, believing that such instruction would make him a more successful leader. Machiavelli was an impressive student of history
who did not want to present a whitewashed portrait of humanity (The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 2002). He deviated from the Christian contention that man was essentially good.
Man was actually quite the contrary, according to Machiavelli, and if political leaders were going to be effective, they needed a brutally realistic appraisal of the people they were expected
to lead (Ahsan, 2002). Machiavelli detailed what he considered to be ideal leadership qualities in Chapters 17 through 19 of The Prince. He was extremely candid in his
comments about these desirable characteristics, and how a prince should go about practicing them. When pondering the popular political question of whether a leader should aspire to be loved
or feared, Machiavelli replied with astonishing candor, "It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person,
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