The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History

by Leo Braudy

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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.

  • ISBN10 0195040031
  • ISBN13 9780195040036
  • Publish Date 11 September 1986
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 June 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 662
  • Language English