H.G. Wells 
The New Machiavelli [EPUB ebook] 

“I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze that came out of my unguarded nature…”
Although H. G. Wells wrote this masterly novel in 1911, it is still a convincing and illuminating exploration of the “corridors of power”… a study of a man’s progress towards the leadership of the nation… and his love for a woman who was not his wife. And as Wells reminds us, this is a scandal no statesman can survive…