Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
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Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the eighteenth century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the nineteenth. He was a force of nature, a ruthless, brilliant, charismatic military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, a gifted composer, performer, poet and philosopher, and a discerning patron of artists, architects and writers, most famously Voltaire. From the very start of his reign he was an intensely divisive figure - fascinating even to those who hated him.
Tim Blanning´s brilliant new biography captures Frederick´s vitality, complexity and flawed genius better than any previous writer. He also recreates a remarkable era, the last flowering of the old regime that would be swept away almost immediately after Frederick´s death by the French Revolution.
Equally at home on the battlefield or in the music room at Frederick´s extraordinary miniature palace of Sanssouci, Blanning draws on a lifetime´s immersion in the eighteenth century to present him in the round, with new attention paid to his cultural self-fashioning, including his sexuality. Frederick´s spectre has hung over Germany ever since, both as inspiration and warning - Blanning at last allows us to understand him in his own time.
Tim Blanning´s brilliant new biography captures Frederick´s vitality, complexity and flawed genius better than any previous writer. He also recreates a remarkable era, the last flowering of the old regime that would be swept away almost immediately after Frederick´s death by the French Revolution.
Equally at home on the battlefield or in the music room at Frederick´s extraordinary miniature palace of Sanssouci, Blanning draws on a lifetime´s immersion in the eighteenth century to present him in the round, with new attention paid to his cultural self-fashioning, including his sexuality. Frederick´s spectre has hung over Germany ever since, both as inspiration and warning - Blanning at last allows us to understand him in his own time.
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