 | No matter your age, September signals a return to the shark-infested waters of school or workplace. Here is a darkly comic and enticingly designed primer for survival.
Right in tune with the millennial thirst for power and sanctimonious view of children, A Child's Machiavelli -- distilled from the sixteenth-century Italian political philosopher's notorious treatise -- spells out intricacies of manipulation and domination in simple, straightforward language juxtaposed with sweetly pastel images appropriated from children's classics:
* Only give things away when people are watching
* People who cheat are always more successful than people who are always honest
* Make sure you only let people see you doing stuff where you come off really good
* If somebody's got to hate you, make sure it's a bunch of weaklings with no money
As Machiavelli's The Prince meets Antoine Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, it's easy as ABC to be politically savvy and savage at work or at play. Its tongue-in-cheek concept and mischievous format make A Child's Machiavelli a finely ironical key to maximizing your advantages and diminishing your rivals.
What a wicked, decadent, delicious -- and ruthlessly instructive -- gift book!
(from book jacket description)
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A Child's Machievelli: A Primer on Power by Claudia Hart
