That penchant for power and glory earned him powerful enemies at virtually every step of his ascendance.
Episcopalians, Kit and Frederica Konolige write in their book "The Power of Their Glory," are "outstandingly powerful because they have bred a small, supersuccessful, and superwealthy élite that has become, historically and today, America's aristocracy".
This is as close as the world of American politics can bring us to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: $18 million in total advances and the story, told from separate and probably irreconcilable points of view, of a powerful couple in their glory and in their shame.
A law passed in 2002 promised them restitution, but no funds were authorized until this year, when Jacques Chirac, the president of the republic, attended a screening of "Days of Glory," a powerful exploration of injustice and resilience that arrived six decades too late, and just in time.
In 1933 Howard directed The Power and the Glory, a searing account of the rise and fall of a powerful railroad tycoon (Spencer Tracy).
Rogers scored twice, the crowning glory a long, powerful dribble which put paid to any accusations that the Horse of the Year Show quagmire on which they played was somehow a leveller.
The City of Joy is one of three settings, each in a different country, visited by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger in "Whores' Glory," his quietly powerful but dispiriting documentary, which compares the world's oldest profession as practiced from place to place.
SUNDAY Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame, 1960) Powerful drama set in a Scottish infantry batallions regimental headquarters after World War II where a neurotic Sandhurst-trained martinet (John Mills), traumatised by prison camp experiences in the Far East, clashes fatally with the easy-going ex-ranker (Alec Guinness) whom he replaces as commanding officer.
Since the 1980s, when the commercialization of sports began in China, money has become a powerful incentive alongside the drive for glory.
And yes, the new trailer does look back to Star Wars' past glories – there's a powerful sense of nostalgia in the new teaser, but selective nostalgia.
