These laws boil down to being ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful to the maximum extent possible. This power game may be played successfully or badly, and the rules that must be followed to win are contained in these 48 laws collected from the history and knowledge of the world’s greatest power players. We live now in the same way that courtiers formerly did in royal courts: we must maintain a courteous demeanour while seeking to crush everyone in our path. In this encyclopaedic compilation of the methods and means of power, the writers have developed a kind of anti-Book of Virtues.Īccording to Greene, a screenwriter and former Esquire editor, everyone craves power, and everyone is always playing a devious game to obtain greater power at the cost of others (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia).
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