Heroes by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Heroes by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism in Western civilization.

In this riveting and insightful cultural history, Lucy Hughes-Hallett brings to life eight exceptional men from history and myth to explore our timeless need for heroes. As she re-creates these extraordinary lives, Hughes-Hallett illuminates the attractions and dangers of hero worship. This is a fascinating book about dictatorship and democracy, seduction and mass hysteria, politics and culture, and the tensions between being good and being great.

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy: -

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Political Book Award for Political Biography of the Year, and the Costa Biography Award; Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions, which won the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award; and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. She lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9781400079797
ISBN 10	1400079799
Title	Heroes
Author	Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2006-12-05
Number of pages	528
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