History: Review of New Books, March 22nd, 1998
Truesdell, Matthew Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fete Imperiale, 1849-1870 New York: Oxford University Press 238 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-19-510689-X Publication Date: June 1997
Matthew Truesdell received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and is currently teaching in the San Francisco Bay area. His book offers an interesting examination of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's techniques of image building and political manipulation, first as president of the Second Republic from 1848 to 1851 and then until his disastrous defeat in 1870, as Emperor Napole...
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