Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron
Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of
Germany set Europe down the path of disaster to World War I. But as
Volker Ullrich shows in this new edition of his accessible
biography, the real Bismarck was far more complicated than the
stereotype. A leading historian of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century history, Ullrich demonstrates that the "Founder
of the Reich" was in fact an opponent of liberal German
nationalism. After the wars of 1866 and 1870, Bismarck spent the
rest of his career working to preserve peace in Europe and protect
the empire he had created. Despite his reputation as an enemy of
socialism, he introduced comprehensive health and unemployment
insurance for German workers. Far from being a "man of iron and
blood," Bismarck was in fact a complex statesman who was concerned
with maintaining stability and harmony far beyond Germany's newly
unified borders. Comprehensive and balanced, Bismarck shows us the
post-reunification value of looking anew at this monumental
figure's role in European history
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