Saint Bob Releases Classics With Modern Twist

MEMPHIS, TN -- Saint Bob Press has launched it's Saint Bob Classics series with Niccoló Machiavelli's The Prince. The Saint Bob Classics series provides commentary and notes throughout the text, explaining both the historical context and the modern relevance, of classic literature. The series is not geared for students, but adult readers who spent more time in the bar than the library.

Readers who want to see how past lessons matter today, but are also looking for style and humor in their entertainment. In the Saint Bob Classics' updated release of this perennial classic, novelist and financial writer Richard Murff translates The Prince into twenty-first century life.

Taking the reader through the masterpiece with chapter by chapter commentary, Murff renders accessible just what Machiavelli is telling us about politics, foreign policy, and mankind. "What I've set out to do is to point out that it isn't unconnected. A lot has changed in 500 years, but the fundamentals haven't." Says Murff, "Seizing a city state and setting the outgoing Prince's head on pike at the city gate isn't fundamentally different from parading the bodies of Saddam Hussein's dead sons on a gurney for the benefit of CNN."

From Saint Bob Classics : "'Therefore a wise prince must provide in such a way that, in whatever circumstances, the citizens will always be in need of him and his government. Then they will always be loyal to him.' The common man calls these welfare and college loans, the nobles call them tax breaks."

Please call if you wish to interview Richard Murff or request additional information.

The Saint Bob Classics edition of The Prince is available one line through Barnes & Noble (www.br.com) and www.amazon.com. See more at www.saintbobpress.com or Richard Murff's financial markets commentary at www.atlasspinning.com. Saint Bob Press is an independent publisher founded in 2007 with simple of goal of "Read It and Get It". With the launch of the Classics series, Saint Bob Press seeks to continue its mission of rendering the lessons of history in a modern and applicable light.

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