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The way we talk about the character of leaders has come a long way since Leo Tolstoy railed against Carlyle's great-man theory of history 130 years ago in War and Peace : "To study the laws of history, we must entirely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements that influence the masses."
Much of the essay takes Du Bois to task for his "inadequate interpretation of the human condition"--translation: Du Bois didn't fight hard enough for the rights of women, homosexuals, and other oppressed minorities and doesn't seem to have thought much about writers like Tolstoy or Kafka--and his "inability to immerse himself fully in the rich cultural currents of black everyday life."
To paraphrase Tolstoy paraphrasing Pushkin: All grammatical expressions resemble each other; each ungrammatical expression is ungrammatical in its own way.
But the essay's example was Tolstoy's use of Natasha Rostova in War and Peace . At Tolstoy's balls, teas, and operas, even jaded readers get to see everything anew--because we see it through Natasha's gushing teeny-bopper heart.
Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.