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Scurr (history, Univ. of Cambridge; Fatal Purity) here uses her signal strength as biographer to look at what seems a small matter, and through it illuminate a much larger subject, in this case the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. All his life, Bonaparte loved gardens. As a young cadet at Brienne, he tended his own plot and raised crops to eat. Later, as the leader of France, he was occupied with schemes of conquest a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More