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Napoleon: A Political Life.(Book review)
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September 22, 2006|
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Napoleon: A Political Life. By Steven Englund. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 575. $18.95.)
This biography of Napoleon is nightmarishly inaccurate as to details, but eminently readable, despite the author's love of hyperbole and borrowing. For example, "[Bonaparte's] French divisions ... floated like butterflies and stung like bees ..." (100). Steven Englund "came to Napoleon" as a boy via lead soldiers (469). Another path is popular history, like this Napoleon, that may recruit many disciples for its hero.
The hardback edition ...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
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