The Art of Strategy: The Top 10 Military and Political Masterminds
Biographical Studies in Military Command, Diplomacy, and Political LeadershipBy Jacob Abbott, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, William Milligan Sloane, Joseph Moyle Sherer, Woodrow Wilson, John Torrey Morse, Alfred von Reumont, George Hesekiel
Length186h 35m
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The Art of Strategy: The Top 10 Military and Political Masterminds gathers biographical and historical writing into a comparative study of leadership, statecraft, and command. Moving between military narrative, political analysis, and character portraiture, the volume considers strategy not merely as battlefield calculation but as the management of ambition, institutions, diplomacy, and public power. Its selected lives and episodes illuminate the recurring tensions between tactical brilliance, moral judgment, and historical consequence. The contributors—Jacob Abbott, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, William Milligan Sloane, Joseph Moyle Sherer, Woodrow Wilson, John Torrey Morse, Alfred von Reumont, and George Hesekiel—represent a broad nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of popular yet learned historical biography. Their varied national and intellectual backgrounds bring different assumptions about authority, empire, republicanism, reform, and military glory. Read together, their accounts reveal how historiography itself shapes the image of the "mastermind," balancing admiration for exceptional individuals with attention to the political worlds that enabled them. This volume will reward readers of military history, political thought, biography, and leadership studies. By placing multiple voices and interpretive methods in one book, it invites readers to compare ideals of command across eras and cultures. Its breadth makes it especially valuable for students and general readers seeking both historical knowledge and a critical dialogue about power, strategy, and the making of great reputations.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length186 hrs 35 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Masters of Warfare and Diplomacy: The 10 Greatest Strategists in History
26FIRST BOOK (pt. 1)
2Alexander the Great
27FIRST BOOK (pt. 2)
3PREFACE.
28FIRST BOOK (pt. 3)
4Chapter III.
29SECOND BOOK. (pt. 1)
5Chapter IV.
30SECOND BOOK. (pt. 2)
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6Chapter VI.
31SECOND BOOK. (pt. 3)
7Chapter VIII.
32THIRD BOOK (pt. 1)
8Chapter IX.
33THIRD BOOK (pt. 2)
9Chapter XI.
34FOURTH BOOK. (pt. 1)
10Hannibal
35FOURTH BOOK. (pt. 2)
11PREFACE
36Volume 2
12Chapter III.
37FOURTH BOOK—continued (pt. 1)
13Chapter V.
38FOURTH BOOK—continued (pt. 2)
14Chapter VI.
39FOURTH BOOK—continued (pt. 3)
15Chapter VIII.
40FIFTH BOOK. (pt. 1)
16Chapter X.
41FIFTH BOOK. (pt. 2)
17Chapter XI.
42SIXTH BOOK (pt. 1)
18Julius Caesar
43SIXTH BOOK (pt. 2)
19PREFACE.
44SIXTH BOOK (pt. 3)
20CHAPTER IV.
45APPENDICES.
21CHAPTER VI.
46Augustus
22CHAPTER IX.
47CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, B.C. 63-44
23CHAPTER XII.
48CHAPTER II THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT THE DEATH OF IULIUS CÆSAR
24Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent
49CHAPTER III THE INHERITANCE
25Volume 1
50CHAPTER IV THE CONSULSHIP AND TRIUMVIRATE
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