Books
November, 1975
In order to write Power! How to Get It, How to Use It (Random House). Michael Korda collected his observations on office politics, threw in some anecdotes and proceeded to plunder several books of quotations. The result is very much like one of those dreary college sociology texts, in which the author restates in authoritative tones what you already knew, builds a structure around it and festoons it with jargon. His notion is that power--"the ability to bring about our desires"--is a g...
