List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and brief titles; Introduction: Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy Paul A. Rahe; Prologue: Machiavelli's rapacious republicanism Markus Fischer; Part I. The English Commonwealthmen: 1. Machiavelli in the English revolution Paul A. Rahe; 2. The philosophy of liberty: Locke's Machiavellian teaching Margaret Michelle Barnes Smith; 3. Muted and manifest English Machiavellism: the reconciliation of Machiavellian republicanism with liberalism in Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government and Trenchard's and Gordon's Cato's Letters Vickie B. Sullivan; Part II. The Moderate Enlightenment: 4. Getting our bearings: Machiavelli and Hume John W. Danford; 5. The Machiavellian spirit of Montesquieu's liberal republic Paul Carrese; 6. Benjamin Franklin's 'Machiavellian' civic virtue Steven Forde; Part III. The American Founding: 7. The American prince? George Washington's anti-Machiavellian moment Matthew Spalding; 8. John Adam's Machiavellian moment C. Bradley Thompson; 9. Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian political science Paul A. Rahe; 10. James Madison's princes and peoples Gary Rosen; 11. Was Alexander Hamilton a Machiavellian statesman? Karl-Friedrich Walling; Index.

"This outstanding collection of essays examines the very important question of how Machiavelli's work influenced modern political thought and practice. Its excellent contributors consider a wide variety of issues in their several ways, making a powerful contribution to our understanding of the subject." Donald Kagan, Yale University