Men on Horseback
Subtitle: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jul 28, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780374207922
Description: "A group biography of Pasquale Paoli, George Washington, Toussaint Louverture, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Simon Bolivar with an emphasis on charismatic leadership."--

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. -- adapted from jacket
Notes: Source title: Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (The Copenhagen Trilogy)