Heroes Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship |
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| Author:
| Hughes-Hallett, Lucy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4000-4399-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Knopf |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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"Hughes-Hallett illuminates the attractions and dangers of hero worship. This is a book about dictatorship and democracy, seduction and mass hysteria, politics and culture, and the eternal tension between the Achillean glorification of death and the Odyssean affirmation of life."--BOOK JACKET.
"Hughes-Hallett illuminates the attractions and dangers of hero worship. This is a book about dictatorship and democracy, seduction and mass hysteria, politics and culture, and the eternal tension between the Achillean glorification of death and the Odyssean affirmation of life."--BOOK JACKET.