War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy (also rec’d by Bob Dylan , Ernest Hemingway & Martin Luther King Jr. )
Buy on AmazonOne book that I returned to many times was Tolstoy’s great work, War and Peace . (Although the word war was in the title, this book was permitted.) I was particularly taken with the portrait of General Kutuzov, whom everyone at the Russian court underestimated. Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, and made his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people. It reminded me once again that to truly l...
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"One book that I returned to many times was Tolstoy’s great work, War and Peace . (Although the word war was in the title, this book was permitted.) I was particularly taken with the portrait of General Kutuzov, whom everyone at the Russian court underestimated. Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, and made his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people. It reminded me once again that to truly l..."
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