The frenzy of renown : fame & its history

Author(s)

• Braudy, Leo

Bibliographic Information

The frenzy of renown : fame & its history

Leo Braudy

Oxford University Press, 1986

Note

Bibliography: p. 599-623

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The author shows that the desire to be famous is far from being just a twentieth-century obsession, tracing the history of fame and its pursuit from Alexander the Great to the idolatry of media figures today.

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Details

• NCID: BA00823447
• ISBN:
  • 0195040031
• LCCN: 85029659
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 649 p., [32] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 908.8
  • NDC7 : 361.6
  • LCC : BJ1470.5
  • DC19 : 306/.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Fame
  • FREE : FameGB8917446