Word: napoleonism
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...with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write. Years later still, when she was an author, lecturer, philanthropist, Mark Twain could say that the two most interesting characters of the 19th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller...
...seldom seek revenge. They are gluttons for work and like to have the bands playing with them. The spirit of Kiwanis and a tendency to early baldness are theirs. Under this sign were born Benito Mussolini,* Herbert Clark Hoover, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Ford, Ethel Barrymore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Napoleon Bonaparte...
Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...
...more to show that the pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...
...recent biographers of Galahad and of Napoleon collaborated on a title for this book, they would undoubtedly have chosen: "Talleyrand and his Girl Friends: or Too Much of his Private Life to Explain his Reputation." In which case, this review need have been written...