"Following the footsteps of thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederic Bastiat, eight-time New York Times bestselling author Mark R. Levin examines the role of power in our lives, society, and government--the philosophical and the practical. Levin takes the reader on a journey from the earliest civilizations to the modern republics of the West, where power has been used to liberate and oppress. To reward and to exploit. To build and to destroy"--