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| 1. | Amazon.com |
| "Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world,
a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions
and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on... read full editorial |
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| 2. | From Publishers Weekly |
| Greene and Elffers have created an heir to Machiavelli's Prince, espousing
principles such as, everyone wants more power; emotions, including love,
are detrimental; deceit and manipulation are life's paramount tools.
Anyone... read full editorial |
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| 3. | From Library Journal |
| Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince (1513) as an amoral guide to
practicing power in a dangerous world. Author Greene (formerly at Esquire)
and collaborator Joost, the packager of many books for Penguin Studios,
including... read full editorial |
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| 4. | From Booklist |
| Greene is a screenwriter, playwright, and professional researcher. Elffers
"packages" books; among his "products" are a book on fruit carving called
Play with Your Food (1997) and a book of "personology" profiles
called... read full editorial |
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| 5. | From Kirkus Reviews |
| of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a
constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others,
according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers,... read full editorial |
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| 6. | New York magazine |
| It's The Rules for suits.... Machiavelli has a new rival. And Sun-tzu
better watch his back. |
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| 7. | People |
| Beguiling... literate... fascinating... a wry primer for people who
desperately want to be on top. |
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| 8. | Book Description |
| Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills
three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well
explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its
content, this... read full editorial |
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| 9. | Book Info |
| (Joost Elffers) Outlines the laws of power from the synthesized work of
Machiavelli, Suntzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. These
laws show the reader how to gain power, to observe it, or to defend
themselves against it. Softcover. |
