How to Rule the World

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Summary: Brief map to the top.
Review: It has all the rules for chopping your way to the top, but lacks the detail to make it happen. In order to get to the other side of the river, someone can tell you to jump in and swim to the other side. However, it is nice, a la Nicolo Machavelli, to have someone give you detailed instructions as to how to do it. Like if you are half way across the rage filled river and find you cannot swim, what do you do. The book, none-the-less, is a nice desk top or pocket reference book to review your options during those times when you need a quick pick me up. A nice buy.

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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Often being referred to by my friends as some future world despot, I was intrigued by an article about this book. So I picked it up today at Borders and I thought it was hilarious. Pretty thought provocking strategies of global domination - to be taken lightly, of course. It's funny to see the book's strategies used to impress the media (quoting philosophers and the like) and then to see them imitated in real life by some clueless idiots. Anyway, haven't finished it yet, but I thought it was worth buying.

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Summary: Lets get ready to rule!!!
Review: Samuel Johnson said "There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful", and when it comes to this amusing little book, how right he was. Serious students of world domination may start with Machievelli's "The Prince", the rest of us can have a laugh over this.

The chapters are an interesting tempters - they include "Have You Got What it Takes?", which details the ideal personality of a leader; "Career Paths to the Top" which lists 10 jobs likely to lead to world domination (one is a parking inspector); "Advanced World Rule" which discusses among other things founding a faith and "Posterity - Leaving Your Mark" - the joy of large monuments and best selling memoirs. There are enough real life tales here, told very tongue in cheek to make this quite an informative little book, but really it is just a very funny dig at the dictators and autocrats of the world. An agonisingly serious topic no doubt, but very funny here! Enjoy!

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Summary: Brilliant satire
Review: Samuel Johnson said "There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful", and when it comes to this amusing little book, how right he was. Serious students of world domination may start with Machievelli's "The Prince", the rest of us can have a laugh over this.

The chapters are an interesting tempters - they include "Have You Got What it Takes?", which details the ideal personality of a leader; "Career Paths to the Top" which lists 10 jobs likely to lead to world domination (one is a parking inspector); "Advanced World Rule" which discusses among other things founding a faith and "Posterity - Leaving Your Mark" - the joy of large monuments and best selling memoirs. There are enough real life tales here, told very tongue in cheek to make this quite an informative little book, but really it is just a very funny dig at the dictators and autocrats of the world. An agonisingly serious topic no doubt, but very funny here! Enjoy!

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Summary: When I rule, this instruction manual will be destroyed!
Review: This is the ultimate manual for any up and coming dictator which takes the reader step by step through the process of how to become the ruler of a country, and ultimately if you can handle the pace, the world! This book is so good that when I become ruler of the world I will have all copies destroyed so that no one will be able to take my place.

With this book you'll learn important stuff like learning how to watch your back, whilst stabbing someone else's. The secret is not to worry what is right or wrong, only what is effective and other inspirational messages that will take you all the way to the top. This is the aspiring dictator's bible!

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Summary: Brilliant satire
Review: While it's fun to plot global domination and read up on examples of dictators (Hitler, Castro, ...Maggie Thatcher!?!), the real value in the book is its satire. De Guillaume takes every technique practiced by Saddam, Kim-Jong Il and the like, and makes it into something really worth laughing at.

Some of the chapters/tips are obvious takes on famous tyrants (ie, shoot out your window Saddam-style at pigeons) and the general impression of the book is to make tyrants look even dumber than they looked before. Comparing the book's advice to those who are taking it in real life is always uproariously funny and a little educational.

A tiny book with an enormous amount of laughs and one that should be making dictators around the world tremble with embarrassed anger.