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Sam Schulman complains in the Wall Street Journal that despite the excellent material, Eisler "cannot capture" the essence of Byron's power "because her earnestness misses his seductive combination of modesty, irony, self-doubt and self-confidence."
(There is also a brash self-confidence to Pooh: He composes to himself that would have done Whitman proud.)
De Gaulle, with his canny sense of history, took an important step toward rebuilding national self-confidence by insisting that French armed forces fight side by side with the Americans and British for the liberation of the country, but, above all, that the French army be the first to enter Paris itself.
[David] McClelland [author of The Achieving Society ] said that the "famous self-confidence" of businessmen--really, their refusal to face discouraging facts--was an important tool for economic development.
At Goodwill she gained in self-confidence, in her vision of her future and in the job skills she needed to find and keep a good job. "