Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger - 1947

This book is in good condition. The cover has some wear on the front, back, spine, edges, and corners. There are stains on the front and back of the cover. The pages are clean of markings, yellowed and tanned. The binding is starting to loosen but all the pages are intact.

"There are many reasons for reading Prince of Foxes? not least, as some reviewers like to say, that it's just about impossible to put it down once you start it, but I would like to put it forward as a textbook example of what Americans were reading during the golden age of American popular fiction. This period lasted for about three decades, from the early 1930's to the late 1950's, during which much of the commercial fiction that millions of American read for pleasure. Fiction that made the best-seller lists were works of considerable literary skill and stylistic distinctiveness. That stands in sharp contrast to the popular fiction Americans now read...None wrote better than Shellabarger...Shellabarger was an educator by training and inclination, and he wanted readers to learn from his novels as well as be entertained by them. To say that you will learn a lot about Renaissance Italy from Princes of Foxes is an understatement. Jonathan Yardely, Pulitzer Prize winning book critic and columnist for the Washington Post and author of six books