48 Laws of Power was pretty dumb, unfortunately. It celebrated con artists and manipulators as the powerful. As I recall from having read it 10 years ago, it strongly suggested Napolean's advisors were the powerful, whereas its dearth of stories about Napolean's actions themselves suggested by comparison that he was not. Instead of discussing true, active, forthright power, it pretended passive aggressiveness was the epitome of power.
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