These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone 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, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). It is the work of a man who has led by action and example-a man who is one of the few genuine heroes we have. This memoir is remarkably free of polemics, self-pity, and self-aggrandizement. De Klerk that culminated in a peaceful revolution in South Africa. He writes with respect and affection of the traditional culture in which he was raised, even of his ritual circumcision at the age of 16 and he describes with remarkable dispassion the events that aided his growing politicization, such as the failed miners' strike of 1946 his quest for dignity even while imprisoned on Robben Island and the dramatic negotiations with President F.W. Here the leader of black South Africans' fight for freedom details each step of that journey. In the 76 intervening years, Mandela's path was the path of his pepole and his country: painful, obstacle-ridden, often seemingly impassable.

In 1994, has was elected the first black president of a South Africa newly free of apartheid. In 1918, Nelson Mandela was born, the son of a tribal chief in the Xhosa nation.

Long walk to freedom by nelson mandela