Research Catalog

Title

Kurt Eisner : a modern life / Albert Earle Gurganus.

Author

Gurganus, Albert E.

Publication

• Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

x, 576 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.

Series Statement

German history in context

Uniform Title

German history in context.

Subject

• Eisner, Kurt, 1867-1919
• Revolution (Bavaria, Germany : 1918-1919)
• Revolution (Germany : 1918)
• 1918-1919
• Socialists > Germany > Biography
• Socialists
• Bavaria (Germany) > History > Revolution, 1918-1919
• Germany > History > Revolution, 1918
• Germany
• Germany > Bavaria

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A novel's suffering hero: a youth in Berlin (1867-1889) -- Aristocratize the masses: from Berlin to Frankfort to Marburg (1890-1893) -- Refuge of all idealists: through Cohen to Kant toward Marx (1893-1896) -- Dictatorial megalomania: Lèse Majesté and Plötzensee Prison (1898-1900) -- No idle dreamer: at the helm of Vorwärts (1900-1902) -- My life's purpose: molding the readership (1902-1903) -- Never ... a less fruitful scholastic debate: intramural strife - evolution vs. revolution (1903-1905) -- Revolutionizing minds: the scorched middle ground (1905) -- The complete parity of my experiences: from exile to Nuremburg (1905-1907) -- The most genuine and fruitful radicalism: taking the lead at the Fränkische Tagespost (1907-1908) -- So suspect a heretic, as surely I am: new bearings in North Bavaria (1908) -- Dear little whore: personal and professional turmoil (1909) -- To find a lost life: from Nuremberg to Munich (1909-1910) -- Something of a party (Offiziosus in Bavaria: political editor at the Münchener Post (1910-1911) -- At peace with myself: resettling into family life (1912-1913) -- The powerlessness of reason: the World War erupts (1914) -- Wretched superfluity: divided loyalties (1915-1916) -- War for war's sake: political alienation and realignment (1916-1917) -- The most beautiful days of my life: leading the opposition (1917-1918) -- Our power to act now grows: from prisoner to premier (1918) -- The terror of truth: forging the republic, combating reaction (1918) -- The fantasies of a visionary: martyr of the revolution (1918-1919) -- Now dead, as it stands: outcomes and legacy (1919-2017) .

Call Number

JFE 18-6903

ISBN

• 9781640140158
• 1640140158

LCCN

• 2017055940
• 40028233199

OCLC

1001454683

Author

Gurganus, Albert E., author.

Title

Kurt Eisner : a modern life / Albert Earle Gurganus.

Publisher

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

German history in context

German history in context.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1918-1919

Other Standard Identifier

40028233199

Research Call Number

JFE 18-6903