Otto von Bismarck

World Leaders Past & Present

by Jonathan Rose, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Introduction)

A biography of the Prussian statesman who united the German people under one government and whose policies and influence were felt throughout Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Genres: Biography, History

112 pages, Library Binding

First published June 1, 1987

About the author

Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history and the history of the book. He served as the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and as the president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. His The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize and the British Council Prize. He is co-editor of Book History, which won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the Best New Journal of 1999. He held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University and he reviews books for the The Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph.

Reviews

[Ben]

I used this book as a resource for a ninth grade history project.