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Prince Otto, son of the late Prince Herbert Bismarck, onetime Secretary of State of Prussia, is 30 years old. At 26 he was elected a Reichstag deputy, being one of the youngest men ever to enter the German Parliament...
Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, has turned from politics in the Reichstag, where his grandsire carved a memoriable career for himself, to diplomacy, being appointed first secretary of the German legation at Stockholm, capital of Sweden...
...grandsire, who (according to Emil Ludwig, famed Teuton biographer) until he was well past 30 was considered a "Taugenichts" (good-for-nothing), annoying his neighbors with his scandalous affairs with women, Prince Otto, if intellectually inferior, is a mild-mannered, well-behaved citizen of the Republic. Whereas the great Bismarck, while extremely sensitive, was permeated by an intense hatred of mankind, with the exception of his wife and children, who he loved and adored above everything else, despite the fact that he was three times engaged before he could find a woman who would marry him, the contemporary Bismarck...
Emil Ludwig is one of the foremost writers of biography today, already known in this country for his studies of Napoleon and Wilhem HohenzoHern. In this new book, prefaced by an introduction on the writings of history, he deals with nineteen men of genius, Frederick the Great, Wilson, Bismarck, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare, Goethe and eight others. In this work one will find Ludwig's theory of the causes and effects of the appearance of a world genius in human society...
...laughed at great men. Yet there was no greater man in public life anywhere when he died. Napoleon, Metternich, Wellington, Peel-he had sent flowers to a thousand notable graves. Gladstone and Disraeli-because he lived, they had to wait. And Bismarck had just begun. The last light of the 18th Century flashed in Palmerston's eyes-eyes which, shaded by a white silk hat, were too weak to catch any glimpse of the 20th Century...