Preferably great struggle, from poverty to riches, from peasant to king, from undisciplined fool to mighty thinker.
Even philosophical texts on such a topic would suffice.
Thus Spoke Zoroaster/Human All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil
TH White's The Once and Future King, which now that I about it, can be said to liken to the life of Napoleon Bonaparte
The Forgotten Highlander
white heat
or throne of blood
or macbeth for the shakespeare version of throne of blood