The 48 Laws of Power, Concise Edition - Softcover

Greene, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861974884 ISBN 13: 9781861974884

Publisher: Profile Books, 1999

Synopsis

Wry and ironic, this guide to success includes the tactics, triumphs and failures of leading figures in history.'

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Review:

"Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective", writes Robert Greene. Command of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book "have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power ... while others decrease it and even ruin us."

The laws cull their principles from many great schemers--and scheming instructors-- throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand; from Casanovato con man Yellow Kid Weil. They are straightforward in their amoral simplicity: "Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit" or "Discover each man's thumbscrew." Each chapter provides examples of the consequences of observance or transgression of the law, along with "keys to power", potential reversals" (where the converse of the law might also be useful) and a single paragraph cleverly laid out to suggest an image (such as the aforementioned thumbscrew); the margins are filled with illustrative quotations. Practitioners of one-upmanship have been given a new, comprehensive training manual, as up-to-date as it is timeless. -- Jake Bond. --This review refers to the hardback edition of this title.

Review:

'Invaluable manual on the use and abuse of power... indispensable and often-cited influence on many of America's most successful rappers' -- Sunday Times Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1861974884
• ISBN 13: 9781861974884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182