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The Fall of Public Man
Richard Sennett
“a book that had a big impact on me many years ago”
“I read a book that had a big impact on me many years ago called The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett, in which he described cafe life in London”— Robert Greene
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Frames of Mind
Howard Gardner
“a book I always recommend for people”
“there's a book I always recommend for people called The Five Frames of Mind by Howard Gardner, in which he talks about the five forms of intelligence”— Robert Greene
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
“up until the point when you wrote the first of your many books called The 48 Laws of Power back in 1998”— Robert Greene
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Mastery
Robert Greene
“when I wrote my fourth book, Mastery, I was a little bit concerned that young people were getting to were thinking that the whole game of life is about politics”— Robert Greene
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The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
“there's Martin Luther King, who's somebody I wrote about a lot in The Laws of Human Nature”— Robert Greene
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The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene
“Some of the greatest seducers, male and female, were not good-looking at all. That's a myth that I try to explode in The Art of Seduction”— Robert Greene
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The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
“so, in my war book, I read the biography of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the saintliest figures in history”— Robert Greene
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Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
“When you were 12 years old, you told me Robert that that was the first album you ever bought was Innervisions”— Steven Bartlett
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The Contender
“There was this show, a reality show with boxers. I think it was called The Contender, in which the finalist held up a copy of the book”— Robert Greene
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