MAY BOOK
Our book for May is Napoleon: A Political Life by French history scholar Steven Englund (link). We'll be trying a different venue this month, namely Steamworks Brew Pub (Steamworks), located just a half block east of Waterfront Station. Join the Gastown gang on the Steamworks patio this Tuesday evening, May 3. As usual, it's a 7pm start and all are welcome.
This sophisticated and masterful biography brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall―from his Corsican boyhood, his French education, his astonishing military victories and no less astonishing acts of reform as First Consul (1799–1804) to his controversial record as Emperor and, finally, to his exile and death―he explores the unprecedented power Napoleon maintains over the popular imagination.
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