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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 a revolutionary world eager to do without kings and queens. |
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| Physical Description: | 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374207922 0374207925 |