Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Why We Cannot Quit Machiavelli
Chapter 2. How Catastrophe Forces Tragic Choices upon Us
Chapter 3. On the Vices of Humans and the Virtues of the Beasts
Chapter 4. How Cruelty Makes and Then Unmakes Tyrants
Chapter 5. Why Love Is the Foundation of Republics and Hatred Their Ruin
Chapter 6. When Tumults Can Serve the Health of the State
Chapter 7. On Revolution
Chapter 8. On the Comic Nature of Republican Power
Chapter 9. How Politics Requires the Propaganda of Appearances
Chapter 10. Why Catastrophe Demands Good Leaders but Often Empowers Bad Ones
Chapter 11. An Exhortation to Resist the Coming Barbarism
Notes
Works Cited
Index