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Founders Notes: Napoleon

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Napoleon David A. Bell His life was enormously important, endlessly fascinating, and connected to some of the most controversial and constantly reinterpreted events in world history. NOTE Reading about Napoleon will increase ambition. Why, then, this book? While the current crop of biographies has many virtues, concision is not among them. Not only do many readers not have the time and patience for such tomes, but it is all too easy to get lost in the welter of details. NOTE Read this biography of Napoleon before reading others. It's only 113 pages and gives you a great overview of his life and how Napoleon thought. He is the man that all the men on the field had sworn to die for. He is the man who, born in obscurity, acquired the greatest military reputation of any European military commander in centuries while still in his twenties. At thirty he ruled France, and at forty he dominated Europe as no individual had since Charlemagne. The wars he fought had changed the map of Europe forever. NOTE Why he is worth studying. One of the most dramatic lives anyone has ever lived. NOTE Why so many biographies have been written on Napoleon. Stage-management is as important as the drama itse

Napoleon David A. Bell His life was enormously important, endlessly fascinating, and connected to some of the most controversial and constantly reinterpreted events in world history. NOTE Reading about Napoleon will increase ambition. Why, then, this book? While the current crop of biographies has many virtues, concision is not among them. Not only do many readers not have the time and patience for such tomes, but it is all too easy to get lost in the welter of details. NOTE Read this biography of Napoleon before reading others. It's only 113 pages and gives you a great overview of his…

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