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Books in Brief.("Napoleon")(Brief Article)
Napoleon, by Paul Johnson (Viking, 190 pp., $19.95)
Johnson, the British historian renowned for such monumental surveys as A History of the Jews and Modern Times, narrows his focus in his most recent work, a slender biography of Napoleon. This splendid addition to the Penguin Lives series offers a comprehensive view of Napoleon in all of his incarnations: as an ambitious Corsican youngster, opportunistic revolutionary, invincible general, overreaching emperor, rapacious lover, and, finally, impotent exile. Johnson's pithy and devastating judgments, reminiscent of Tacitus -- e.g., "Warfare, from being a means to an end, became an end in itself, and Bonaparte, having once unsheathed his sword, found it impossible to lay it down for long" -- and clear and direct prose make for a story that is fascinating and instructive.
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