Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

512 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history philosophy informative slow-paced
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Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism in Western civilization.Our need for heroes is a timeless phenomenon; from ancient Greece to September 11, we have always looke...

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