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46th Ave., Long Island City, N.Y. 11 101. Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, was a master of modern pub- lic relations who brilliantly portrayed himself as a national hero and military genius. In reality, argues Barnett, author of the new biography Bonaparte, Napoleon "was not a heroic genius or a master of war at all, but an overconfident gambler pursuing a fundamentally unsound sys-...