The Prince
1532 · 176 pages
Machiavelli threw out the question of how a ruler ought to behave and asked how power is taken and kept. His answer, that a prince does better feared than loved, still unsettles people.
★ 8.5
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536 · 1059 pages
Calvin set all of Protestant belief in order: who God is, what humanity became, and how grace arrives unearned to those God has chosen. Reformed churches have run on this book ever since.
★ 6.8