Kurt Eisner : a modern life / Albert Earle Gurganus.
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.
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2018.
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| Series: | German history in context.
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Table of 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)