Bismarck, English edition

From the contents:

1: Introduction
2: Born Prussian and What that Meant
3: The 'Mad Junker'
4: Bismarck Represents Himself, 1847 to 1851
5: Bismarck as Diplomat 1851-1862
6: Power
7: 'I have beaten them all! All!'
8: The Unification of Germany 1866 to 1870
9: The Decline Begins: Liberals and Catholics
10: 'The Guest House of the Dead Jew'
11: Three Kaisers and Bismarck's Fall from Power
12: Conclusion: Bismarck and His Legacy
Bibliography
Index

Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, and Emeritus Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

the best biography of the Iron Chancellor to date Wall Street Journal Jonathan Steinberg delivers the best biography of Bismarck...superb. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Daily Telegraph Steinberg succeeds in getting inside the mind of [Bismarck] Daily Express Amazing story...Steinberg reveals the character contours...as never before. Radio Times Magnificent...brings out the monstrous egotism of Bismarck more clearly than anybody before him...Steinberg has brilliantly transformed this man of "blood and iron" into a tragic figure worthy to be compared with Goethe's Faust Daniel Johnson, New Criterion If scholars and history buffs want to meet Bismarck in flesh and blood, they need go no further. Booklist Astute biography Independent A fine lively and scholarly biography 01/06/11 A fascinating biography...Steinberg breathes more life into Bismarck than any other biographer...the result is riveting, and we experience Bismarck as a hulking, breathing presence. Wall Street Journal An incisive psychological approach Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review superb biography London Review of Books The best study of its subject in the English language Henry Kissinger, New York Times Book Review Fine biography Irish Times Steinberg has an eye for details...and a talent for reconstructing the political drama of the period...Perhaps the greatest single pleasure of this books, and its signiture quality, [is] the unusually generous helping of quotations from those who came under Bismarck's spell.' David Blackbourn, The Guardian This is the best one-volume life of Bismarck in English, much superior to older works. It brings us close to this galvanic, contradictory and ultimately self-destructive figure...' David Blackbourn, The Guardian Rich and readable Michael Burleigh, The Sunday Times This is a fine biography. The Scotsman Otto von Bismarck became the dominant figure of his era and, as this rich and readable biography shows, had an almost uncanny sense of power. Steinberg's