Power...we want it, we fear it, we protect it..."The feeling of having no power over people and events is hard to bear: impotence makes it unhappy. No one demands less power, everyone wants more."Amoral, intelligent, ruthless and captivating, this colossal book condenses 3,000 years of power history in 48 laws. True manual of manipulation, it analyses the quintessence of this thousand-year-old wisdom, drawn from the life of the most illustrious strategists (Sun Zi, Clausewitz), statesmen (Louis XIV, Bismarck, Talleyrand), courtisans (Castiglione, Gracián), seducers (Ninon de Lenclos, Casanova) and crocs of history.Certain laws are based on prudence (Law 1: Never surpass the master), others ask for concealment (Law 7: Leave the work to others, but collect the laurels, but beware of the task,990 to be the power,990 to be the power of the time, others will find a total absence of life in all the way.