Anita Arnon

Right.

Okay.

And everyone thinks of Napoleon as a teeny weeny, but nobody really thinks about Bolivar that way.

And maybe that's because of what he was like.

Well, that was part of it.

I mean, honestly, it's not even a joke because he was conscious of his height and therefore on a horse, you know, sort of when people were trying to characterize him or when he was agreeing to be painted or sketched on a horse, he was.

So the thing is with him,

And I think it's not the same with Napoleon.

Napoleon was always described as being taciturn.

When he walked into a room, everyone was scared because they thought he might kill them.

But when Bolivar enters a room, he has this voice that many people in his contemporary life talked about.

It was booming and galvanizing.

And he had a magnetism that just made normal-sized men look like teeny weenies.

One of his contemporaries had this to say, he said, if you took your eye off a woman for even a moment when Bolivar was present, he would steal her right from under your nose.

Well, I mean, you know.

He liked his cooking, yes.

I mean, this fabulous biography gives you so many of these lovely insights.

He liked good cuisine.

He could, though, even though he liked good cuisine and fine food, he could endure days, weeks of punishing hunger and these back-breaking trips on his horse.

He had stamina in the saddle that was legendary, hence Iron Ass.