Oldie but goodie
Napoleon by Felix Markham
New American Library, 292 pp.
Reviewed by Peter Gay
From June 25, 1964
Napoleon Against Himself
"For a century and a half now, Napoleon Bonaparte has been a projective test and a convenient symbol. Politicians rode to power by using his name and borrowing his charisma, patriots nostalgically invoked his image, royalists fed their resentments against the modern world by despising him...."
The review demonstrates how historians write about Napoleon hasn't changed much since 1964.