The Prince

Totally epic read. I now understand how to become the next true world leader, even if the world I will lead will only have a few million left when I'm done with it.

An excellent work that depicts premodern politics on the eve of the end of
the medieval period and the beginning of The Renaissance .

Basically: If you watched Game of Thrones or the Godfather , you know how things are. But this work is important for further analysis using historical realities from classical antiquity to Machiavelli's time , for his analysis and experience are indeed insightful into how power is obtained and maintained without ending up like say, Ned stark and Goffery.