Wilhelm II and the Germans : a study in leadership

The Resource Wilhelm II and the Germans : a study in leadership
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Wilhelm II and the Germans : a study in leadership
Title remainder
a study in leadership
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Thomas A. Kohut
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Language
eng
Summary
This striking biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II is the most penetrating study to date of his development and personality, as well as an important contribution to our understanding of the crucial period in history that bears his name, 'Wilhelmine Germany'. A skilful, psychoanalytically informed analysis of the Kaiser's character, the book shows how the powerful leader of Germany's 'Second Reich' became the slave of public opinion - restless, impulsive, and easily swayed by flattery or by those with stronger wills. It reveals a man both anxiously insecure and brashly arrogant, flamboyant and confident in public, yet vacillating and ineffective in his political decisions. Despite his political ineptitude, however, Wilhelm II was one of the most successful and beloved symbolic leaders of modern times. Professor Kohut argues that, in this nationalistic age, the new German nation wanted to see itself as it saw its Kaiser - strong, self-assured, and surrounded by pomp and splendour
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Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
COO
Dewey number
  • 943.08/4/092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
DD229
LC item number
.K54 1991eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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