A lively account of the amazing career of Alexander the Great." -DONALD KAGAN, Yale University For nearly two and a half millennia. Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend-and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day he has been reviled as a mass murderer, a tyrant as brutal as Stalin or Hitler. In this luminous biography, the esteemed classical scholar and historian Guy MacLean Rogers sifts through thousands of years of history and myth to uncover the truth about this complex. ambiguous genius. "Very absorbing." CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Slate "Reading what Rogers has to say about how Alexander changed the world around him and how his deeds still echo among us is a delightful exercise." -WILLIAM H. MCNEILL, University of Chicago, author of The Rise of the West "Thorough and deeply researched... Guy Rogers gives us the astonishing and highly important relevance to our whole his-tory, including recent times of this almost incredible career." -ROBERT CONQUEST, Hoover Institution fellow, author of Reflections on a Ravaged Century

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