Whatever it Takes
The Price of Power, the Cost of Creativity
$32.78
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2018
Summary
What do Julius Caesar, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thomas More, and Pope Innocent III all share? What enabled a deaf Beethoven, a blind Milton, a syphilitic Schubert, and a certifiable Virginia Woolf to create memorable masterpieces?
Peter Deakin takes a new look at heroic leaders—leaders who used their power to inflict suffering and death. And a new look at geniuses who endured misery as the price of their creativity.
This bold analysis shows how they summoned “Whatever It Takes,” lett…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925043433 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925043436 |
| Author: | Peter Deakin |
| Publisher: | Halstead Press |
| Imprint: | Halstead Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 230mm x 151mm |
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About The Author
Peter Deakin
Peter Deakin grew up in Sydney in a family of nine children. He has spent most of his working life as a lawyer, but for even longer has been writing: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Weekends are getting longer on his farm on the Fish River, where he breeds cattle and produces olive oil. He quotes Frank Dalby Davidson: “A man needs a thin skin to be a writer, and mostly needs a thick skin to put up with the consequences.” Deakin believes he has reached the stage where he is ready for the consequences of what he has written.
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