Napoleon (Penguin Lives)

Napoleon (Penguin Lives)
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The very name, Napoleon Bonaparte, still enthralls. Ever since this towering and terrible genius conquered Europe, he has been endlessly debated, compared, and made an icon. In Napoleon, the great dictator's energy and acumen are matched by those of his biographer, Paul Johnson, whose histories have been lauded as "fresh, readable, provocative . . . wise" (Los Angeles Times). Here Johnson profiles "the grandest possible refutation of those who hold that events are governed by forces, classes, economics, and geography rather than the powerful wills of men and women."

With masterly eloquence, Napoleon charts Bonaparte's career from the barren island of Corsica and his early training in Paris-he was a bold soldier with an uncanny gift for math, maps, and strategy-through high-profile victories in Italy, military dictatorship, and campaigns across Europe to his end on the forsaken isle of St. Helena. In Napoleon's insatiable hunger for power, Johnson sees a realist unfettered by patriotism or ideology, a brilliant opportunist and propagandist who fulfilled his ambition in the aftermath of the French Revolution. He interprets Napoleon's life in the trajectory of his times, revealing how his complex and violent legacy seeded totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century and sounds an alert to us in the twenty-first.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Viking Adult
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber NARF_04137
ReleaseDate 2002-05-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780670030781

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Viking Adult
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	NARF_04137
ReleaseDate	2002-05-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780670030781

Napoleon (Penguin Lives)

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