
Men on Horseback
"In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell’s description of our predicament makes for essential reading." —Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books
An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen
In Men on Hors...
"In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell’s description of our predicament makes for essential reading." —Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books
An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen
In Men on Hors...