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Senior Correspondents: Kenneth W. Banta, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
...Austria . . . because the progress of events in Germany has no other issue." Prussia's King William I appointed Bismarck Minister-President in 1862, and within four years, Bismarck was ready for a showdown with Austria. Prussia's chief of staff, Count Helmuth von Moltke, had revived the army of Frederick the Great, making it once again Europe's best. Moltke attacked the Austrians and cut them to pieces. Germany's three centuries of intermittent civil war between north and south, Protestant and Catholic, Hohenzollern and Habsburg, were now over...
...constantly maneuvering rulers. But his Reich was deeply undemocratic: he despised the legislators of the Reichstag, and was not responsible to them, but only to the Kaiser, whom he bullied and cajoled. Everyone expected that when the aged William finally died, his relatively liberal and high-minded son Frederick would lead the empire into a more enlightened era. But when William did die, in 1888, Frederick was already mortally ill with throat cancer, and so the throne soon passed to his temperamental and bellicose son William II, then 29, of whom his own mother once said, "My son will...
Senior Correspondents: Kenneth W. Banta, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...