The Prince

            
             "The Prince" is a political handbook written by Niccolo Machiavelli as a gift for the Medici family in hope that it would get him back in the family's good grace. though I did not have much of an interest in, and did not understand a lot of Machiavelli's "the prince", of all the choices, I was most comfortable writing about on it, as it was still fresh on my mind from reading. .
             Politics, and things of that nature really are not my favorite subject to read about, so getting into "the prince" I knew it was going to be quite a chore to get through. Though, I was surprised to find that most of what Machiavelli said in the book could be easily understood, as long as you had a basic knowledge of the vocabulary pertaining to this subject. Since "the prince" has been used by a number of political leaders over the years, the content has almost become common sense to most of us. Machiavelli never really says anything that comes across as all that profound to me. Maybe at the time he wrote it, but now his ideas almost seem a little dated.