The frenzy of renown : fame & its history

by Leo Braudy

Hardcover, 1986

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Analysizes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, P.T. Barnum, et al.

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LibraryThing member kencf0618
My three-year-old nephew's favorite phrase is "Watch me, watch me!" Here's why. (When some guru said that "Attention is consciousness," somehow I don't think that celebrity is what he had in mind...)

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