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The author has seemingly mined every extant primary source in reconstructing his subject's 'modern life', from its beginnings in 1867 as the son of a Berlin purveyor of military-aristocratic finery to its tragic end on the streets of Munich... In its meticulous detail, Gurganus' biography is likely to be unsurpassed for many years. * JOURNAL OF MODERN JEWISH STUDIES *
Gurganus provides a detailed biography of the socialist intellectual Eisner, appreciating him not only in his role as minister-president of the Free State of Bavaria, which he himself proclaimed in 1918. The presentation of Eisner's life shows him in chronological fashion as a thinking, feeling, acting person of his time. Gurganus falls back on his research, which he began as far back as the 1970s, and provides a comprehensive evaluation of the archival sources. On hand of especially thorough reference to Eisner's numerous newspaper articles, Gurganus teases out his intellectual development and his political ideas. * GERMANISTIK *
It is important that an English-language study of the first Bavarian Minister-President is now available. * FRANCIA-RECENSIO *
[O]ne real strength of this book is that it confers a set of deeper strands to Eisner the public figure-what drove his politics, his journalism, and his relationships with others. . . . [A]n exemplary biography that takes us deep into the mind and context of its enigmatic subject. Gurganus's account is exhaustively researched without being overdetailed, and written with a captivating dramatic verve. . . . [T]he author more than meets his objective to cast his work for 'the broad band of English speakers' with a more general interest in early twentieth-century German history. * GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY *
Compelling. * QUARTERLY REVIEW *
[A]n exhaustive biography of Eisner [that] provides detailed insight into the SPD's party life in late nineteenth-century Germany. . . . [S]hows the breadth of Eisner's erudition. . . . [W]e are offered a beautiful picture of [Eisner's] versatility as an intellectual . . . . * H-SOCIALISMS *
[T]his book is a tour de force. It provides a treasure trove of information on one of the early twentieth-century German left's seminal and all too often forgotten figures. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *
Book Information
ISBN 9781640140158
Author Professor Albert Earle Gurganus
Format Hardback
Page Count 610
Imprint Camden House Inc
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g