Historical Leaders, Ideal Leaders ; Dirigeants historiques, dirigeants idéaux

Of all great historical figures, that of the leader is the most salient, as he (or, more rarely, she) seems capable of embodying the very best or (sometimes simultaneously) the very worst of his country's essence. As a result, biographies of leaders are as much political programs as historical research, as if the writers reverted to the genre of "Lives." This special issue of the periodical "Great Historical Figures in the Letters and the Arts" wishes to examine various twentieth- or twenty-first-century writers who used biographies of historical leaders as platforms to articulate their own vi... Mehr ...