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PowerMoneySexFame
By Gretchen Craft Rubin
Pocket Books, 2001 - 320 pages
I bought this book after stumbling across
it in the sociology section at Borders.
I flipped through it and found some humorous and
insightful comments and decided to buy it to lighten up my
reading, as I primarily read Peter Drucker, other management
books and some philosophy.
I thought the book would be some light-hearted humor
and I wasn’t disappointed!
The author, Gretchen Craft Rubin, is an
extremely witty woman. While her background is law the book
has tons of comments from famous historical figures such as
Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Plutarch, Shakespeare, and Edith
Wharton.
The book is segmented, as expected, into
the 4 sections described in the title (POWER MONEY FAME SEX).
Each section provides some unique insight
into human behavior, some examples in recent history and tons
of witty comments from historical figures
Here are just some of the examples but,
just so you know, the book is not in quotation form.
“People believe, and research proves,
that high-status men attract more women easily than low-status
men.”
“The sex that accompanies your success
is a nice perk for all your hard work – a pleasant,
convenient way to demonstrate the status you’ve achieved.”
“They envy the pleasures they imagine
you’ve won. Perception
drives reality, and your status swells accordingly."
Playboy Donald Trump “When we walk into
a restaurant, I watch grown men weep.” He was watching other
men’s reaction to his date, not his date herself.
Jack Kennedy reported “once I get a
woman, I’m not interested in carrying on, for the most
part.” He was
pursuing conquests, not relationships.
LBJ “Goddamn it, I had more women by
accident than he ever had by design.” – he maintained a
nookie room” in the capital for his illicit liaisons
“The more money, fame and power you
have the more easily you can have casual sex.”
Anyways, I can go on and on about the
book but I will not. BUY
THE BOOK, enjoy it as it is fairly easy reading and, at 320
pages well worth the price of the insights and humor delivered
and was extremely easy to read.
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About the
Author:
Gretchen Rubin
received her undergraduate and law degrees from
Yale and was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale
Law Journal. She clerked on the United
States Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor and served as counsel to Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Reed
Hundt. She worked on a U.S. Senate campaign
and on Capitol Hill. She teaches at Yale’s law
and management schools and has taught at
Columbia’s law and business schools. She lives
with her husband Jamie and toddler Eliza in New
York City.
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