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With an eye for spectacle and a penchant for an actress in a crinoline, Napoleon III has been dismissed as an embarrassing failure.
Jonathan Keates wonders if he was a calculating opportunist or a forgotten visionary.
Jonathan Keates - Taller with the Charm On
Jonathan Keates: Taller with the Charm On - The People’s Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross
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Hot off the press in the latest @Lit_Review: my review of Tim Whitmarsh's book on the origins of Christianity and the Age of Augustus. (TLDR: it's well worth a read.)
My review of Jack Watling's powerful tour d'horizon of geopolitics today in @Lit_Review. Jack feels strongly but writes with cool restraint:
Patrick Porter - Putting the Grand Back in Strategy
Patrick Porter: Putting the Grand Back in Strategy - Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World by Jack Watling
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