[Ansteorra] The Prince - N. Machiavelli

[Sandra Geil]

There is a series [Great Books] Produced by Cronkite-Ward which has an episode on The Prince. I think the producers did a better than average job of looking at the historical place of the book and then tying it in to current history. The hook for the episode about The Prince was to tie ideas from the text in to advise for President Clinton.

I think you can find it still on TLC from time to time...

Here is some detail on the series...

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"Great Books" began airing on The Learning Channel in 1993 with programs about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. The next programs to be aired were Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, the fourth century B.C. classic The Art of War, by Sun Tze and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Other books to be featured include Joseph Heller's Catch- 22, Native Son by Richard Wright, Plato's The Republic, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Machiavelli's The Prince, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Homer's The Odyssey. 

Filmed throughout the world, programs in the series include film clips from movies and interviews with scholars, writers, musicians, filmmakers and world leaders, thus presenting a variety of interpretations about the book and its effect on the world today. For example, actor Donald Sutherland, who narrates the series, interviews Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane, Lewis Carroll biographer Morton Cohen and the president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America (Alice in Wonderland); British science fiction writer Brian Aldiss and "Star Trek's" Leonard Nimoy (War of the Worlds); and Army Gen. William Westmoreland, Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap and U.S. Naval War College Professor Arthur Waldron (The Art of War). 

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