The Resource Bismarck : a life, Jonathan Steinberg
Bismarck : a life, Jonathan Steinberg
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- Summary
- Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the nineteenth century, except for Napoleon. He unified, and indeed, created, the country at the center of two world wars that would transform the world. This biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. The author draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck's personality. He was a kind of malignant genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 577 p., [16] p. of plates
- Contents
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- Bismarck's 'sovereign self'
- Bismarck: born Prussian and what that meant
- Bismarck: the 'mad Junker'
- Bismarck represents himself, 1847-1851
- Bismarck as diplomat, 1851-1862
- Power
- I have beaten them all! All!
- Unification of Germany, 1866-1870
- Decline begins: liberals and Catholics
- Guest house of the dead Jew
- Three Kaisers and Bismarck's fall from power
- Bismarck's legacy: blood and irony
- Isbn
- 9780199599011
- Label
- Bismarck : a life
- Title
- Bismarck
- Title remainder
- a life
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Steinberg
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the nineteenth century, except for Napoleon. He unified, and indeed, created, the country at the center of two world wars that would transform the world. This biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. The author draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck's personality. He was a kind of malignant genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Steinberg, Jonathan
- Dewey number
-
- 943.08/3092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DD218
- LC item number
- .S795 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Bismarck, Otto
- Statesmen
- Germany
- Label
- Bismarck : a life, Jonathan Steinberg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [528]-537) and index
- Contents
- Bismarck's 'sovereign self' -- Bismarck: born Prussian and what that meant -- Bismarck: the 'mad Junker' -- Bismarck represents himself, 1847-1851 -- Bismarck as diplomat, 1851-1862 -- Power -- I have beaten them all! All! -- Unification of Germany, 1866-1870 -- Decline begins: liberals and Catholics -- Guest house of the dead Jew -- Three Kaisers and Bismarck's fall from power -- Bismarck's legacy: blood and irony
- Control code
- ocn663438587
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 577 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780199599011
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010045387
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- Specific material designation
- unspecified
- System control number
- (OCoLC)663438587
- Label
- Bismarck : a life, Jonathan Steinberg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [528]-537) and index
- Contents
- Bismarck's 'sovereign self' -- Bismarck: born Prussian and what that meant -- Bismarck: the 'mad Junker' -- Bismarck represents himself, 1847-1851 -- Bismarck as diplomat, 1851-1862 -- Power -- I have beaten them all! All! -- Unification of Germany, 1866-1870 -- Decline begins: liberals and Catholics -- Guest house of the dead Jew -- Three Kaisers and Bismarck's fall from power -- Bismarck's legacy: blood and irony
- Control code
- ocn663438587
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 577 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780199599011
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010045387
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- Specific material designation
- unspecified
- System control number
- (OCoLC)663438587
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