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 common: 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: Oliver Cromwell, Nelson Rockefeller, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Louis XIII of France, Christopher Columbus, Thucydides, Cao Cao (general), Michel de Montaigne, Otto von Bismarck, Cyrus the Great, Molière, Genghis Khan, Catherine de Medici, Charles Darwin, Marie Antoinette, Pietro Aretino, Michelangelo, Marcus Antonius, Henry Kissinger, Francis Bacon (philosopher), Frederick William IV of Prussia, Alexander the Great, Niccolò Machiavelli, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Sand, Oscar Wilde, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Baldassare Castiglione, Joseph Fouché, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Wagner, Rembrandt van Rijn, Philip II of Spain, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Tom Thumb, Madame de Pompadour, Pope Clement VII, Aristotle (philosopher), Thomas Edison, Dante Alighieri, Ivan the Terrible, Thomas Pynchon, Attila the Hun, Frédéric Chopin, Pancho Villa, Cosimo II de'Medici, Duke of Tuscany, Yellow Kid, Montesquieu, Pericles, Nicolas Fouquet, Odysseus, Richard Nixon, Plutarch, Erwin Rommel, Edgar Allan Poe, Louis XVIII of France, Andy Warhol, Leo Tolstoy, Muhammad Ali, Arthur Schopenhauer, Themistocles, Constantine the Great, Cleopatra, Maximilien Robespierre, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XVI of France, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Louis XV of France, Stonewall Jackson, Alcibiades, Louis XIV of France, Al Capone, Walter Raleigh, Klemens von Metternich, Moses, Aeschylus, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bertolt Brecht, Benito Mussolini, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, J. Edgar Hoover, J. P. Morgan, Philip II of Macedon, Tennessee Williams, Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent), Xerxes I of Persia, Christopher Wren, Gaspard de Coligny, Pablo Picasso, Louis XI of France, Robin Hood, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Queen of Scots, J.M.W. Turner, Woodrow Wilson, Diego Velázquez, Oedipus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Galileo Galilei
genres: Audiobook, Politics, Self Help, Philosophy, Personal Development, Psychology, Leadership, Nonfiction, Business, History
ratings_count: 133508
publisher: Penguin Books