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1. Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero–Worship, & the Heroic in History, ed. Murray Baumgarten, The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” in The Marx–Engels Reader, ed. Robert C. Tucker (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), 595; Plato, The Republic, trans. Allan Bloom, paperback ed. (New York: Basic Books, 1991), 153–154; and Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Rex Warner, paperback ed., Penguin Classics (Hammondsworth, England: Penguin, 1972), 10–11.

2. For a survey of the political science literature arguing that leaders are of little importance, see Fred I. Greenstein, “The Impact ...