Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
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.