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One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.
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— Richard Norton Smith

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One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently. — Richard Norton Smith

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Richard Norton Smith was a Historian from United States (1953–present).

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Richard Norton Smith lived from 1953 – present.