Buonaparte

Cornford’s donnishly witty guide to university politics, “Microcosmographia Academica”; a long magazine profile of novelist Margaret Drabble and biographer Michael Holroyd; and, best of all, Richard ������eley’s satirical pamphlet, published in 1819, “Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte.”

Two being sold this week portray Bonaparte’s father, Carlo Maria Buonaparte, a descendent of minor Tuscan nobility who had moved to Corsica, and his mother Maria Letizia Bonaparte.

At the national level, their ranks have included a man who identifies himself as “Caesar Saint Augustine de Buonaparte Emporer of the United States of Turtle Island.”

Proclaiming Hamilton “our Buonaparte,” Jefferson predicted the federal troops would be used against domestic dissidents.

Mr. Saint Augustine de Buonaparte has actually run for president during every cycle since 1996.