Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...
...more to show that the pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...
...maker of these safe but sizzling statements, last week, was German Celebrity Dr. Emil Ludwig, 47. He stepped off the Majestic with his handsome wife, espoused in South Africa when he was 22. Throughout the U. S. his Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kaisers, are best selling biographies...
...effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that condemns the disorderly dieties who make men's lives sterile and without joy. There is also the scope, the inclusiveness that permits him to deal with large effects, to call, in the sweeping vigorous lines of The Dynasts, for Napoleon's army to appear upon the stage...
...recent biographers of Galahad and of Napoleon collaborated on a title for this book, they would undoubtedly have chosen: "Talleyrand and his Girl Friends: or Too Much of his Private Life to Explain his Reputation." In which case, this review need have been written...