What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? - The New Yorker

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What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? The New Yorker “Distractions, whether they are little games with his army or navy, travelling or hunting—are everything to him,” a disillusioned former mentor wrote. “He reads very little apart from newspaper cuttings, hardly writes anything himself apart from ...