In Troy, the movie version of the Iliad, Brad Pitt plays the part of Achilles. I cannot remember who plays Hector. On Amazon, there are over 100,000 titles devoted to Napoleon. Wellington was demonstrably a better general and greater statesman. There are about 10,000 titles about him on the Amazon list. Artists and intellectuals are bored by Coolidge and excited by Lenin. Fairly late in life I have learned to be distrustful of their witness. They are more attracted to glory than to decency. Well, Washington and Wellington were more enamored of the example of Cincinattus than that of Caesar, and Eisenhower outranked Patton. Thank God, that so many American leaders have been unimaginative. Artistic talent is inversely proportional to political maturity.
