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Review New York Review of Books: "Magnificent Rebels"

���An engrossing chronicle of the early German Romantics ��� Wulf, who has a novelistic eye for the telling detail, provides a riveting account of how raptures gave way to ruptures��� ���  New York Review of Books

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Review New Yorker: Magnificent Rebels

A big chunky review in The New Yorker: 

���Magnificent Rebels is a buoyant work of intellectual history ��� a fine and thorough book��� ��� The New Yorker

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Review Irish Examiner: Magnificent Rebels

���Magnificent Rebels is one of those rare books that is truly an intellectual landmark��� ��� Irish Examiner

 

Podcast: World in Time about "Magnificent Rebels"

And here is another podcast "World in Time"

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Washington Post: Review "Magnificent Rebels"

���Andrea Wulf���s engaging and often profound new group biography ��� a thrilling picture��� At its most ambitious, ���Magnificent Rebels��� concerns the relationships between philosophy and politics, thought and action ��� Despite the complex arguments developed by its main characters, the book vividly conveys the drama of ideas ��� There is plenty of erotic drama here too, since the rebellion Wulf describes was sexual as much as anything ��� ���Magnificent Rebels��� shows with great lucidity how the Romantic desire to liberate the self still shapes our sense of who we are ��� or who we might strive to be��� ��� Washington Post

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Podcast: History Extra - Interview "Magnificent Rebels"

And here is the History Extra podcast.

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Podcast: Little Atoms

And here is another interview ... for the podcast Little Atoms

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Podcast The Rest is History: Magnificent Rebels

The Rest is History chatted with me about "Magnificent Rebels".

Listen to Episode 233 (Germans behaving badly):

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New York Times: Review Magnificent Rebels

And a fabulous review in the New York Times.

���Exuberant ��� vibrant ��� Magnificent Rebels paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics��� ��� New York Times

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Two more reviews in Air Mail and the Literary Review

���A very readable, stimulating and entertaining survey of a group of writers who deserve to be better known in the Anglophone world��� ��� Literary Review

���Andrea Wulf ���s breathless, sprawling narrative vividly illustrates what it was like to live in Jena ��� a vaulting achievement��� ��� Air Mail (click here for Air Mail review)