John P. McCormick

A new window into Machiavelli's idea of virtuous leadership and the appropriate relationship among leaders, common citizens, and elites. For more than a decade, John McCormick has been at the forefront of a new wave of scholarship that reveals the anti-elitist and democratic commitments at the centre of Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought. In The People's Princes, McCormick turns his attention...

To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccolo Machiavelli's three major political works—The Prince, Discourses, and Florentine...