num_pages: 480
description: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention—grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real life. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded—or been victimized by—power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
language: English
title: The 48 Laws of Power
titlecomplete: The 48 Laws of Power (A Joost Elffers Production)
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: 133546
publisher: Profile Books