This book concerns the wanting, getting, and giving ofpower.

Originally published in 1950 by Yale University Press.

This collection of essays is the first full-scale effort to deal with the voluminous writings of Lasswell and explore his at once charming and baffling personality which is perhaps inseparable from the inventiveness, unconventionality, and ...

The volume is organized around the five fields of central interest to Lasswell: elite analysis in an contextual perspective, developmental constructs, political communications research, the use of psychoanalysis to explain political ...

His original thoughts on the garrison state construct remain applicable today. This important volume brings together four major essays written by Lasswell.