Article: Napoleon: The Path to Power.(Book review)

NAPOLEON: The Path to Power, Philip Dwyer, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, and London, 2008, 672 pages, $35.00.

Many see Napoleon as the culmination of the French Revolution's energy and the prototype of the new man that emerged from its turmoil. Philip Dwyer concurs and describes the ways Napoleon used the novel methods to present himself as a new leader untainted by petty partisan politics. Dwyer shows Napoleon as a serious, talented, energetic young man in his 20's who experienced a series of reverses that destroyed his idealism but not his ambition. Napoleon's disillusionment with his youthful goals fired his determination to rise as a Soldier, and his ...

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