The book “48 Laws of Power” was written by Robert Greene in 1998. Robert Greene is an American author and “48 Laws of Power” was his first book. The subject of this book is self-help and is famous with celebrities and prison inmates. About 1.2 million copies of this book have been sold in United States. This book is followed by “The art of Seduction”. An art of Seduction is author’s second book and is also a best seller on international level. It was published in 2001. Other books of author include “The 33 strategies of war”, “The 50th Law” and “Mastery”.
Greene was working as a Hollywood writer when he started thinking about different ideas of this. Then he changed his job and started working an art and media school. While doing this job, he gave his ideas a form of book. This book was a turning point in his life and as discussed earlier that after this book he wrote several other books.
He was called a psychopath because oh his book but he himself said that “I am not evil, I am realist”. This book is for all those people who want success in their life, who are influenced by the power, who want to be good in their professional and personal relationships. The main theme of this book is power. The ideas of this book are not for socialist and pacifist. This book has been considered Bible for everyone. Robert Greene in this book gives ideas and strategies of two things.
The 48 Laws of Power Book Review
First is how to get the power and second is how to save you from getting into trouble that comes with power i.e. the addiction of power. No one is unfamiliar with the fact that power itself has addiction and here in this book you will find ways to save yourself from this addiction and getting destroyed by power.
This book also received a lot of critics. Professor Jeffery Pfeiffer criticized this book by saying that “48 Laws of power” is not based on solid research just isolated examples. Kirkus reviews said that this book is total non-sense. Even the laws in this contradict with each other. All these laws have no evidence that they will actually work in real life and world. Director magazine and news week both agree with Kirkus reviews about the contradiction of the laws with each other.
Different newspaper and magazines called this book with different names like Fast Company called this book “Mega cult classic”. Los Angeles times mentioned that this book has turned Robert Greene into a cult hero. Along with these two publications this book has been mentioned in Men’s Health, ESPN, Business insider, CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, Entrepreneur magazine, Forbes etc.
This book is very famous and must read book in prisons. According to areport this book is most requested book in prison theories of United States. Two colleges of America have included this book in the syllabus of their first year. Busta Rhymes used the laws of this book to deal with movie producers.
“Reputation is the corner stone of power” which is the 5th law has been used as a tattoo on the arm of DJ premier. DJ Calvin Harris has also a tattoo on his arm. This tattoo is related to 28th law “Enter with build ness”. UGK, Drake, Kanye west, Jay.Z have been mentioned this book in their songs.
No doubt this is really a famous book and international best seller instead of the fact that many professor and magazines criticized it because it was not based on research.
