Men on horseback : the power of charisma in the Age of Revolution /

A group biography of Pasquale Paoli, George Washington, Toussaint Louverture, Napoleon Bonaparte and Simon Bolivar with an emphasis on charismatic leadership. Bell argues that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma. He shows how political leadership was reinvented for...

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Main Author:	Bell, David A. (David Avrom) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Biography > 18th century. Charisma (Personality trait) Political leadership. Statesmen > Biography. Generals > Biography.