The 48 Laws of Power – Bargain Price, September 1, 2000

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Author: Visit Amazon’s Robert Greene Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0140280197 | Format: PDF, EPUB

The 48 Laws of Power – Bargain Price, September 1, 2000
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• Paperback: 452 pages


• Publisher: Penguin Books; 1 edition (September 1, 2000)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0140280197


• ISBN-13: 978-0140280197


• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches


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This book is well-written and very nicely designed. Beyond that, it’s hard to see what the fuss is about.

First of all, and on the one hand, the book isn’t the torrent of Machiavellian amorality you may have been led to believe. The author does go out of his way to make it _sound_ as though he’s presenting you with sophisticated, in-the-know, just-between-us-hardheaded-realists amoral guidance. But as a matter of fact almost every bit of this advice _could_ have been presented without offense to the most traditional of morality.

(For example, the law about letting other people do the work while you take the credit is made to sound worse than it really is. Sure, it admits of a “low” interpretation. But it’s also, read slightly differently, a pretty apt description of what any good manager does.)

Second, and on the other hand, the advice isn’t _that_ good; it’s merely well-presented. How it works will depend on who follows it; as the old Chinese proverb has it, when the wrong person does the right thing, it’s the wrong thing.

And that’s why I have to deduct some stars from the book. For it seems to be designed to appeal precisely to the “wrong people.”

Despite some sound advice, this book is aimed not at those who (like Socrates) share the power of reason with the gods, but at those who (like Ulysses) share it with the foxes. It seeks not to make you reasonable but to make you canny and cunning. And as a result, even when it advises you to do things that really do work out best for all concerned, it promotes an unhealthy sense that your best interests are at odds with nearly everyone else’s. (And that the only reason for being helpful to other people is that it will advance your own cloak-and-dagger “career.

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