1: The Action and the Actors; 2: Prophets in Revolt; 3: Cicero, Father of the Republic: An Epitaph; 4: The Kingmaker: General Monk; 5: The Survivor: Sieyès; 6: A Premature Totalitarian: Louis Bonaparte; 7: A Major Defection; 8: The Dialectics of Succession; 9: The Fascist Syndrome 1; 10: The Mythmaker, T. E. Lawrence: An Existentialist Revolt; 11: The Sputtenng Fuse: Spain; 12: Augustus Before Caesar: De Gaulle; Conclusions: A Surfeit of Answers