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CONTENTS
PREFACE
BOOK FIRST. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF HIS CHARACTER AND GENIUS.I. Napoleon's Past and Personality.CHAPTER II. HIS IDEAS, PASSIONS AND INTELLIGENCE.
II. The Leader and Statesman
III. His acute Understanding of Others.
IV. His Wonderful Memory.
V. His Imagination and its Excesses.I. Intense Passions.BOOK SECOND. FORMATION AND CHARACTER OF THE NEW STATE.
II. Will and Egoism.
III. Napoleon's Dominant Passion: Power.
IV. His Bad Manners.
V. His Policy.
VI. Fundamental Defaults of his System.
CHAPTER I. THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENTI. The Institution of Government.CHAPTER II. PUBLIC POWER
II. Default of previous government.
III. In 1799, the undertaking more difficult and the materials worse.
IV. Motives for suppressing the election of local powers.
V. Reasons for centralization.
VI. Irreconcilable divisions.
VII. Establishment of a new Dictatorship.