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Winner of the J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical
Association Best Book on the First Empire by a Foreigner, Napoleon
Foundation "Englund has written a most distinguished book
recounting Bonaparte's life with clarity and ease...This
magnificent book tells us much that we did not know and gives us a
great deal to think about."-Douglas Johnson, Los Angeles Times Book
Review "Englund, in his lively biography...seeks less to
rehabilitate Napoleon's reputation and legacy than to provide
readers with a fuller view of the man and his actions."-Paula
Friedman, New York Times "Napoleon: A Political Life is a veritable
tour de force: the general reader will enjoy it immensely, and
learn a great deal from it. But the book also has much to offer
historians of modern France."-Sudhir Hazareesingh, Times Literary
Supplement "Englund's incisive forays into political theory don't
diminish the force of his narrative, which impressively conveys the
epochal changes confronting both France and Europe...A strikingly
argued biography."-Matthew Price, Washington Post This
sophisticated and masterful biography brings new and remarkable
analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and
statesman. As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall-from
his Corsican boyhood, his French education, his astonishing
military victories and no less astonishing acts of reform as First
Consul (1799-1804) to his controversial record as Emperor and,
finally, to his exile and death-he explores the unprecedented power
Napoleon maintains over the popular imagination.
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