The 48 Laws of Power

Some play with power and lose it-all by a fatal mistake. Some go too far, others not far enough. And yet others make all the right moves and are able to draw power unto themselves with an almost superhuman dexterity. Amoral, ruthless, cunning and instructive, THE 48 LAWS OF POWER is a piercing distillation of 3000 years of the history of power. This bestselling edition shares with us the wisdom of great thinkers such as Machiavelli, Sun-tzu and Carl Von Clausewitz, as well as legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers and con men throughout the ages.