This in-depth biography is an interesting new analysis of modern history's most famous general and statesman. Thank heavens Englund focuses on the political, rather than the military or personal, aspects of Napoleon's notorious and celebrated life, thus providing the reader with an interesting counterpoint to Paul Schroeder's inexorably corruscating treatment of Napoleon in his Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848.
Distinguished by its use of French rather than English-language sources, this work is an academically wolfish book arrayed in sheep's clothing for the general public, and as such it will take debate on Napoleon's political impact on the 19th and 20th centuries into the drawing rooms of the Anglophone world. Not since John Holland Rose (The life of Napoleon) in 1913 has there been such an even-handed but detailed and serious biographical discussion of Napoleon Bonaparte.
About the author:
Steven Englund (Ph.D., Princeton University) is the author of The Inquisition in Hollywood (with Larry Ceplair), Man Slaughter: A True Story of Love, Death and Justice in America, and Grace of Monaco.
Napoleon: A Political Life
Author(s) : ENGLUND Steven
- Year of publication :
- 2003
- Place and publisher :
- New York: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
- Number of pages :
- 592