TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bell,David A.
TI  - Men on horseback: the power of charisma in the Age of Revolution 
SN  - 9780374207922
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Biography
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Charisma (Personality trait)
KW  - Political leadership
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - Generals
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica -- American Idol -- Waiting for Caesar in France -- The Spartacus of the Caribbean -- Liberator and Dictator -- Epilogue: Charisma and Democracy -- Excursus: Writing Charisma into History
N2  - "A group biography of Pasquale Paoli, George Washington, Toussaint Louverture, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Simon Bolivar with an emphasis on charismatic leadership."--; A group biography of Pasquale Paoli, George Washington, Toussaint Louverture, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Simon Bolivar with an emphasis on charismatic leadership. Bell argues that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma. He shows how political leadership was reinvented for a revolutionary world eager to do without kings and queens. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -