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    Twenty men with a past
    Twenty men with a past
    Twenty men with a past
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    Twenty men with a past

    By Will Coe

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    Articles are: Julian Assange by Thomas Paine; David Beckham by Adonis; Silvio Berlusconi by Garibaldi; Harold Camping by Nostradamus; Simon Cowell by PT Barnum; James Dyson by George Stephenson; Chris Evans by Alvar Liddell; Colin Firth by Emil Jennings; Bill Gates by Charles Babbage; Bob Geldof by William Wilberforce; Damien Hirst by Caravaggio; Boris Johnson by Dick Whittington; Nelson Mandela by Toussaint Louverture; Peter Mandelson by Niccolo Machiavelli; Paul McKenna by Franz Mesmer; Rupert Murdoch by Randolph Hearst; Vladimir Putin by Lavrentiy Beria; Nicolas Sarkozy by Napoleon Bonaparte; David Walliams by Will Kemp; Mark Zuckerberg by Karl Marx.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWill Coe
    Release dateNov 16, 2011
    ISBN9780957002531
    Twenty men with a past
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    Will Coe

    Editor and Publisher of Egopendium, an online magazine featuring artcles by historical figures about current personalities who share their talents or experiences. Author of 'The Archer Prism', a fictional autobiography of Elizabethan writer-soldier-spy, Sir John Harington

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      Twenty men with a past - Will Coe

      TWENTY MEN WITH A PAST

      Precedented people Vol. 2

      BY WILL COE

      Twenty men of today assessed by those who preceded them.

      A selection of articles published during 2011 in Egopendium.

      TWENTY MEN WITH A PAST

      Precedented people Vol. 2

      by WILL COE

      A Wilcooperative publication

      Published in Great Britain 2011

      by Wilcooperative Publishing

      59 Crow Lane

      Husborne Crawley

      Bedford

      MK43 0XA

      UK

      Smashwords edition

      ISBN 978-0-9570025-3-1

      Copyright Will Coe 2011

      The right of Will Coe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TWENTY MEN WITH A PAST

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Julian Assange by Thomas Paine

      Chapter 2: David Beckham by Adonis

      Chapter 3: Silvio Berlusconi by Garibaldi

      Chapter 4: Harold Camping by Nostradamus

      Chapter 5: Simon Cowell by PT Barnum

      Chapter 6: James Dyson by George Stephenson

      Chapter 7: Chris Evans by Alvar Liddell

      Chapter 8: Colin Firth by Emil Jannings

      Chapter 9: Bill Gates by Charles Babbage

      Chapter 10: Bob Geldof by William Wilberforce

      Chapter 11: Damien Hirst by Caravaggio

      Chapter 12: Boris Johnson by Dick Whittington

      Chapter 13: Nelson Mandela by Toussaint Louverture

      Chapter 14: Peter Mandelson by Niccolo Machiavelli

      Chapter 15: Paul McKenna by Franz Mesmer

      Chapter 16: Rupert Murdoch by Randolph Hearst

      Chapter 17: Vladimir Putin by Lavrentiy Beria

      Chapter 18: Nicolas Sarkozy by Napoleon Bonaparte

      Chapter 19: David Walliams by Will Kemp

      Chapter 20: Mark Zuckerberg by Karl Marx

      Chapter 1: Julian Assange by Thomas Paine

      ET TU, JULIAN?

      Tom Paine assesses Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame

      When you upset the world order, as I did and the editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is emphatically doing, the thickness of your skin is fully measured.

      Dermatologically speaking, you need to be an insensitive freak to be a proper revolutionary. You’ll make an igloo of friends but an arsenal of enemies.

      Look what happened to me - ‘Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred’, is how Bob Ingersoll, ‘The Great Agnostic’, summed up my life. Six people came to my funeral in New York even though the late President, John Adams, had said, Without [Tom Paine’s] pen, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain. The lesson being that reputations are hard earned and easily lost.

      I was looking to Julian for a bit of a revival in my reputation.  Because, even though it’s come round to my way of thinking, posterity hasn’t treated me much better than my contemporaries did.

      The English rescued my bones from a sorry American grave and then managed to lose every one of them from cranium to metatarsus. So you would think me immune to criticism. Not quite. Not when it comes from someone you’d expect to revere my memory. Betrayal by a fellow traveller always hurts. When Julian Assange characterised me as a ‘hidden curse’ in the headline of an article he wrote, my soul recoiled.

      ‘You as well, Julian?’ I sighed.

      Happily, it was just a literary device to encourage readership (Julian’s better at hacking computers than writing articles). His real purpose was to support my contention that, We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

      To judge from the hysterical reaction of the US government, Julian’s Wikileaks organisation is certainly threatening to do that. Their reaction upsets me. From free-speaking anti-colonialists to censorious imperialists in a couple of centuries. So much for the First Amendment. It seems Julian’s policing that now, and it doesn’t make for an easy life.

      We share a fundamental belief, that man is above country.

      Julian is rootless. His home is his suitcase and his front door is his passport. His country, Australia, officially despises him, has considered trying him for treason and cancelling his passport. Without success, because unofficially he’s something of a ‘bonzer bloke’. Whether he can escape other jurisdictions is in the balance.

      If he is in my image, the omens are not favourable. England, where I was born, charged me with seditious libel for penning  ‘The Rights of Man’, forcing me to flee to France. Always an excitable destination, France took me to her bosom as the only member of the French National Convention who had hardly a word of French. Then, within the year, she had me in a Parisian jail waiting only for the chalked cross on my door to confirm my day of execution. Fortunately, Robespierre died before I could be intimately acquainted with the promiscuous Mme Guillotine.

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