Amoral- cunning- rutless- and instructive- “The 48 Laws of Power” was a piercing distillation of three thousand years of the history of power. This new concise edition of the 500-page bestseller distils yet further the wisdom of great thinkers such as Machiavelli- Sun-tzu and Carl von Clausewitz- and the legacies of statesmen- warriors- seducers and con men throughout the ages.