Description

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three-thousand years of the real history of power directly into forty eight well explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design because it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power within their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the requirement for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the sum total lack of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but enjoy it or not, all have applications in actual life. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, G.