{"product_id":"men-on-horseback-9781250798626","title":"Men on Horseback","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell's description of our predicament makes for essential reading. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Zaretsky, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMen on Horseback\u003c\/i\u003e, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic new interpretation of modern politics, arguing that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma, its shadow self. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBell begins with Corsica's Pasquale Paoli, an icon of republican virtue whose exploits were once renowned throughout the Atlantic World. Paoli would become a signal influence in both George Washington's America and Napoleon Bonaparte's France. In turn, Bonaparte would exalt Washington even as he fashioned an entirely differen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528969036119,"sku":"9781250798626","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250798626.jpg?v=1731873765","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/men-on-horseback-9781250798626","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}