num_pages: 600
description: Winner of the J. Russell Major Prize American Historical AssociationBest Book on the First Empire by a Foreigner Napoleon FoundationEnglund has written a most distinguished book recounting Bonapartes life with clarity and easeThis 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 ReviewEnglund in his lively biographyseeks less to rehabilitate Napoleons reputation and legacy than to provide readers with a fuller view of the man and his actions.Paula Friedman New York Times 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 SupplementEnglunds incisive forays into political theory dont diminish the force of his narrative which impressively conveys the epochal changes confronting both France and EuropeA strikingly argued biography.Matthew Price Washington PostThis sophisticated and masterful biography brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern historys most famous general and statesman. As Englund charts Napoleons dramatic rise and fallfrom his Corsican boyhood his French education his astonishing military victories and no less astonishing acts of reform as First Consul (17991804) to his controversial record as Emperor and finally to his exile and deathhe explores the unprecedented power Napoleon maintains over the popular imagination.
language: English
title: Napoleon: A Political Life
publisher: Harvard University Press