Max Weber, "Politics as a Vocation" Robert Kennedy, "Thirteen Days: A Memoir" Fee, Shopes, Zeidman, "The Baltimore Book: A History" Jane Jacobs, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Campbell, Joseph, "The Mythic Image" Heat-Moon, William Least, "Prairie Earth" The striking medical facts prior to his terminal illness were the inescapable and recurrent severe abdominal pains, the truncal obesity, the cardiac problem with ankle edema and shortness of breath, the hypertension, and the excessive energy - all of which suggest that he had an underlying pituitary growth which caused an overactivity of the adrenals, or even a small adrenal tumor. ... It comes to mind that if the suggested endocrine disorder of the pituitary could have been discovered and treated with techniques available today, Napoleon's more controlled energies might have led him in other salient and humanistic directions. Patterson-Jones, Proctor, "Napoleon," p 427 "War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life." Back to OSG News January 2001 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Operational Studies Group. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com