Frederick the Great: A Life in Deed and LettersMacmillan, 2000 - 436 páginas Free-thinker, misanthrope, poet, philosopher, law-maker and soldier. Frederick the Great (r. 1740-1786) was a contradictory man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But the king's other -- often ignored -- accomplishments rank him among the ablest statesmen in European history. A patron of artists and intellectuals. Frederick remade Berlin as one of the continent's great capital cities, reformed Prussia's legal system, and strove to match his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement. |
Índice
Introduction | 3 |
1 The Father | 11 |
2 The Growing Boy | 28 |
3 No Two Men Quite Like Them | 67 |
4 Rheinsberg | 98 |
5 The New King | 130 |
6 Chasing Clouds of Glory | 152 |
7 Frederick the Great | 178 |
9 I am Innocent of this War | 244 |
10 The Stag at Bay | 268 |
11 Expecting a Miracle | 304 |
12 Picking up the Pieces | 316 |
13 Dividing up the Pudding | 357 |
14 Twilight | 376 |
Notes | 387 |
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