Bismarck a life
Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the 19thcentury--except for Napoleon. This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of 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!"
- The unification of Germany, 1866-1870
- The decline begins : liberals and Catholics
- "The guest house of the dead Jew"
- Three Kaisers and Bismarck's fall from power
- Conclusion : Bismarck's legacy : blood and irony.
