Richard Norton Smith quote

One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.
Richard Norton Smith
Richard Norton Smith
Richard Norton Smith
Born: 1953

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