Twelve Against the Gods

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

First published in 1929, William Bolitho's portraits of twelve adventurers who defied convention: Alexander the Great, Casanova, Christopher Columbus, Mahomet, Lola Montez, Cagliostro (and Seraphina), Charles XII of Sweden, Napoleon I, Catiline, Napoleon III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson. Bolitho examines what drove each of them and why their adventures succeeded or failed.