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      General Interest

      Publications

Harper’s, June 21, 2020. “New Books,” by Julian Lucas.  

The Point, July 27, 2020. “Charismatic Models,” by Scott Spillman. Featured on “Arts and Letters Daily.”  

TLS, July 31, 2020. “Great Men, Great Myths: The Complex Relationship Between Charisma and Celebrity,” by Sudhir Hazareesingh. Featured on “Arts and Letters Daily.” 

TLS Weekly Podcast, July 31, 2020. 

The Washington Examiner, August 6, 2020. “The Original Populists,” by Robert Gerwarth.

The New Republic, August 17, 2020. “Can Democracy Handle Charisma?” by Ian Beacock. 

The Los Angeles Review of Books, October 6, 2020. "Charisma: Now You've Got It, Now You Don't," by Robert Zaretsky

NRC Handelsblad, December 4, 2020. "De demonische kracht van het charisma" ("The Demonic Power of Charisma"), by Beatrice de Graaf.

The Guardian, December 20, 2020. "How the Intellectual and Cultural Forces of the Enlightenment Found a Potent Expression in Cults of Personality," by Padraic Scanlan.

The New York Review of Books, January 14, 2021. "Democracy's Demagogues," by Ferdinand Mount.

The National Interest, February 28, 2021. "How Cults of Personality Shaped the Age of Revolution," by William Anthony Hay.

La vie des idées, June 11, 2021. "Comme des chefs," by Jean-Louis Fabiani.

The Nation, December 27, 2021. "Revolution of One," by Tyler Stovall.

 L'histoire, March 2022. "Hommes charismatiques."

Le club de mediapart, March 8, 2022. "Le peuple et son chef," by Jean-Clément Martin.

 Letras Libres, March 2022. "La era del carisma," by Rafael Rojas.

Le Figaro, March 10, 2022. "Du charisme en politique," by Charles Jaigu.

L'Humanité, March 11, 2022. "Le culte viril de chefs d'armée," by Pierre Serna.

Lire, April 2022. "L'homme providentiel," by A.M.

Le Monde, April 15, 2022. "Ce lien fervent entre un homme et son peuple," by Pierre Karila-Cohen.

En attendant Nadeau, April 27, 2022. "La fabrique du charisme," by Maïté Boussy.

Corriere della sera, December 10, 2023. "Dittatori democratici: Il culto del leader nasce nel settecento," by Antonino di Francesco. 

Academic

Publications

H-War, September 2020, by Jonathan Abel.

H-Diplo, March 15, 2021. Reviews by David Armitage, Dan Edelstein, Beatrice de Graaf, Ido de Haan and Christine Haynes, with response by David A. Bell.

H-France, vol. 21, no. 80, May 2021, by Edward Berenson.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 52, no. 1 (2021). "Charisma and History," by Robert Rotberg.

Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, vol. 68, no. 3 (2021), by Frédéric Spillemaeker.

Journal of Modern History, vol. o6, no. 2 (2024), by Johnson Kent Wright. 

Publishing Trade

Publications

Kirkus Reviews, February 18, 2020.  

Library Journal, April 1, 2020. By David Keymer. 

Publisher’s Weekly, February 27, 2020. 

Signes des temps, Radio France Culture, April 17, 2022.

 In Our Time, BBC 4 Radio, March 17, 2022

Paroles d'histoire Podcast, March 7, 2022.

La suite dans les idées, Radio France Culture, March 5, 2022

Decryptage, Radio Notre Dame, February 28, 2022 

Bowdoin College discussion with Prof. Meghan Roberts , March 22, 2021.

Ill Literacy podcast ("Books with Benson"), November 9, 2020.

Historically Thinking podcast, September 9, 2020. 

"Cullman Center Conversation" with Annette Gordon-Reed, July 30, 2020.

Lecture at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, June 2020