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This book is excellent at so many levels. Its breadth for a start is impressive. Who knew that, as a result of the eugenics movement, ‘by the mid-1950s a total of 17 states in the USA had prohibited the marriage of people with epilepsy’? Who knew that Napoleon Bonaparte most probably had epilepsy, as well as non-epileptic attacks, that Alfred Lord Tennyson may have had epilepsy, while Alfred Nobel most likely did not. Napoleon was a very good example of a highly successful and ambitious individual, demonstrating that those with epilepsy can be as capable as those without.