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The Shadow Emperor - A Biography of Napoleon III (Hardcover)
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The Shadow Emperor - A Biography of Napoleon III (Hardcover)
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'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom
tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly
revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that
marked his reign, Louis Napoleon may have done more for France than
his famous uncle.' (Alan Massie, Wall Street Journal) This is the
definitive biography, and the first in twenty years, of
Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have
notoriously divided historians. Here, pre-eminent Napoleon
Bonaparte expert and Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan
Strauss-Schom focuses on his successor Louis-Napoleon, overshadowed
for too long by his more romanticized forebear. Strauss-Schom
employs years of primary source research to explore the massive
cultural, social, economical, financial, international, and
military impact of France's most polarizing emperor. Louis-Napoleon
completely revolutionized the state and the economy, but amid gross
financial scandals. His expansion of the French Empire was praised
by the French military and resisted by the socialists. He expanded
the railways to rival England's; created new transoceanic steamship
lines and a modern navy; introduced a new banking sector supported
by seemingly unlimited venture capital; and even oversaw the
creation of the first large department stores. Napoleon III wanted
to surpass the legacy of his famous uncle, Napoleon I. In The
Shadow Emperor, Alan StraussSchom sets out his true legacy.
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