| View Larger Image | Napoleon: A Biography | Paperbackby Frank McLynn (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Arcade Publishing | | Page Count: | 752 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 30, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 326,685th |
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Product Description
Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. In this compelling new biography, Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men-as military leader, lover, and emperor. Tracing Napoleon's extraordinary career, McLynn examines the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and his military triumphs, to his coronation in 1804 and ultimate defeat and imprisonment. McLynn brilliantly reveals the extent to which Napoleon was both existential hero and plaything of Fate; mathematician and mystic; intellectual giant and moral pygmy; great man and deeply flawed human being. |
Amazon.com Review
Napoleon Bonaparte was a bully, rude and insulting. Women did not like him. But even so, writes Frank McLynn, "he had an amazing ability to sway other men to his purposes," which earned him one of the greatest empires Europe had ever known. McLynn, a noted biographer of difficult personalities, gives us a many-sided Napoleon: the shrewd strategist, the intolerant prude, the scrappy fighter, the charismatic leader, the sadist. ("He liked to strike people of both sexes, to slap them, pull their hair, pinch their ears and tweak their noses.") He nonetheless managed to extend French rule to the gates of Moscow. Why, then, was he so resoundingly defeated? McLynn argues that, among other things, Napoleon was not ruthless enough in dealing with the "endless list of ingrates" that surrounded him. McLynn's book has several virtues, and readers interested in Napoleon's brief but brilliant career will want to have a look. --Gregory McNamee |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 27 reviews)
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Disorganized and biased by Rajeshwarakumar Pannala (Stamford, USA)  1 Stars
November 04, 2009
Narration is disorganized and jumps back and forth on the timescale.
The author comes to be an anglophile and gives too much credit to Napoleon's opponents while belittling Napoleon's achievements. The facts and the conclusions drawn do not seem to tally well.
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A good book on Napoleon by Christine Richardson (USA)  3 Stars
July 07, 2009
A good life story on Napoleon - full, complete, but there is not much on the man himself, more the history of his life. If you want to learn about the battles, the people around him etc, this is a good book. If you are looking for a book about the man as in his character, then I would suggest this book:
The History Of Napoleon Bonaparte: A Man Of Genius, Vision And Power
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If by Bluecuervo (New York) 1 Stars
May 13, 2009
If you want to know the real scoop about Napoleon, listen to J David Makam and Cameron Reilly on the Podcast Network's Napoleon 101... that will put it all into perpective for you... PS - 5'7 in the 1800's was far from short.
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Sophomoric psychological profile by gilly8 (Mars, the hotspot of the U.S.) 1 Stars
May 17, 2008
I frankly couldn't finish the book, although I did read the beginning, his youth, and the end, and skimmed the middle. I was so put off by the psychobabble that pervades nearly every sentence of the biography of this man that I found it impossible to go on. It felt like being in a high school class just introduced to Freud, Jung et al. The author actually talks about Napoleon's short stature as an impetus to his need to succeed...the first sentence of the book I thought was tongue in cheek (to the effect of Napoleon was not a real person but a creation of the French nation's need for blood after the age of reason ---paraphrasing). But no...its all like that. His mother is powerful and controlling, his father is weak and emasculated...he hates his older brother and repressed it, therefore, the rest of Europe will suffer because he holds in what he would like to do to his older brother but cannot. And on and on. Does anyone still write and talk this way?
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I LOVE BOOKS by B. Teater (OKC, OK)  5 Stars
February 16, 2008
I saw a piece about Napolean on CBS Sunday Morning and I was very
interested in learning more about him-this book contains all of the info
you need.
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