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Ferdinand Mount is the former Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. His most recent book is Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca. (January 2021)
Democracy’s Demagogues
A new history of five heroes of the revolutionary period considers the power and instability of charismatic leadership.
Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution
by David A. Bell
January 14, 2021 issue
Nasty, Brutish, and Great
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
edited by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov
June 6, 2019 issue
An Ordinary Man
Napoleon: A Life
by Adam Zamoyski
The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape
by Mark Braude
Napoleon: The Imperial Household
an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 3–May 6, 2018; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, June 9–September 3, 2018; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, October 19, 2018–March 3, 2019; and the Musée national du château de Fontainebleau, April 5–July 15, 2019
Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection, 1815–1840
by Philip Dwyer
April 4, 2019 issue
The Mouse That Roared
Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain
by John Bew
April 19, 2018 issue
Super Goethe
He alarmed people as much as he charmed them, not only by his sudden flare-ups and his unpredictable antics, but by his foul language.
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
by Rüdiger Safranski, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer
December 21, 2017 issue
Good Lord
First Confession: A Sort of Memoir
by Chris Patten
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir
by Ken Clarke
October 26, 2017 issue
When Our World Turned Upside Down
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
by Christian Caryl
June 20, 2013 issue
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