num_pages: 452
description: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy  New York Times  bestseller   is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.In the book that  People  magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package,  The 48 Laws of Power  is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
language: English
title: The 48 Laws of Power
titlecomplete: The 48 Laws of Power
characters: Henry Kissinger, Muhammad Ali, Xerxes I of Persia, Arthur Schopenhauer, Marie Antoinette, Leo Tolstoy, Otto von Bismarck, Marcus Antonius, Robin Hood, Henry David Thoreau, Pancho Villa, Stonewall Jackson, Rembrandt van Rijn, Attila the Hun, J. Edgar Hoover, Louis XV of France, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Oliver Cromwell, George Sand, Gaspard de Coligny, Montesquieu, Themistocles, Cyrus the Great, Louis XIII of France, Cao Cao (general), Louis XVIII of France, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Richard Nixon, Pablo Picasso, Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, Bertolt Brecht, Niccolò Machiavelli, Moses, Erwin Rommel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dante Alighieri, Walter Raleigh, Philip II of Macedon, Oscar Wilde, Charles Darwin, Alcibiades, Galileo Galilei, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Ivan the Terrible, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Fouché, Francis Bacon (philosopher), Andy Warhol, Plutarch, Woodrow Wilson, Maximilien Robespierre, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Cosimo II de'Medici, Duke of Tuscany, Frederick William IV of Prussia, Frédéric Chopin, Catherine de Medici, Richard Wagner, Aeschylus, Aristotle (philosopher), J. P. Morgan, J.M.W. Turner, Nelson Rockefeller, Louis XIV of France, Diego Velázquez, Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XVI of France, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Pynchon, Christopher Wren, Madame de Pompadour, Thucydides, Constantine the Great, Odysseus, Genghis Khan, Louis XI of France, Tennessee Williams, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Michel de Montaigne, Klemens von Metternich, Christopher Columbus, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Cardinal Richelieu, Philip II of Spain, Pericles, Yellow Kid, Pietro Aretino, Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent), Oedipus, Pope Clement VII, Cleopatra, Tom Thumb, Molière, Baldassare Castiglione
genres: Business, Leadership, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Self Help, Personal Development, History
ratings_count: 133546
publisher: Viking