![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not men in general, but a tiny subset of men who make, and have always made, the world what it is, and what it will be, good and bad. This book, Andrew Roberts’s generally positive take on Napoleon, shows the falsehood of those claims, and proves that what matters is men. We have gotten used to hearing that individual men don’t matter-that history is instead, take your pick, a matter of struggle for economic advantage, or of the opinions and actions of the masses, or of blind and random fate, or of group politics of one type or another. Neither my claim nor Napoleon is popular nowadays. The original man called that was, of course, Napoleon Bonaparte. For some time now, I have been claiming that what we are likely to get, and probably need, whether we like it or not, is a Man of Destiny. ![]()
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