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Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a Senior Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, as well as a writer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. His book Jean Renoir: The World of His Films was a finalist for the National Book Award. Another of his books, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History... Read More

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The Frenzy of Renown
Fame and Its History
Written by Leo Braudy

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $25.00

For Alexander the Great, fame meant accomplishing what no mortal had ever accomplished before. For Julius Caesar, personal glory was indistinguishable from that of Rome. The early Christians devalued public recognition, believing that the only true audience was God. Marilyn Monroe owed much of her fame to the fragility that led... Read more >

From Chivalry to Terrorism
War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity
Written by Leo Braudy

Format: eBook, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 8, 2010
Price: $16.99

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From Chivalry to Terrorism
War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity
Written by Leo Braudy

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $22.00

Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship between the changing methods and goals of... Read more >