THE ART OF POLITICAL STRATEGY

Sun Tzu wrote a book about war. Machiavelli wrote a book about power. Neither of them had a casino. The Art of Political Strategy corrects this historic oversight.

Told in the booming, self-certain voice of a fictional strategist who has never lost an argument he was willing to remember, this satirical field manual distills modern politics into 110 punchy aphorisms across thirteen chapters. Learn the ancient art of declaring victory before the battle begins. Master the tariff as both weapon and mood. Discover why the best plan is the one you change immediately after announcing it, and why the second-best plan is the one you deny ever announcing.

From On Winning Without Knowing Why to On Making Money from the Fires You Start, each chapter offers wisdom that sounds profound until you think about it for eleven seconds. Inside, you'll find timeless lessons on:

• Treating trade wars like weapons, and weapons like press releases
• Confusing your enemy by first confusing yourself
• Hiring only the best people, then firing them for being the worst
• Blaming your predecessor for everything, including things that went well
• Using government shutdowns as a form of foreplay
• Building your own media ecosystem so you can never technically be wrong
• Finding personal profit in every crisis you personally created