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Frederick The Great
Giles MacDonogh

Frederick The Great

A Life in Deed and Letters

St Martins Pr (Apr 21, 2000)
9780312253189
| Hardcover
436 pages | 163 x 249 mm | English
$ 27.95 | Value: $ 27.95
Dewey 92 FRE
LC Classification DD404 .M23 2000
LC Control No. 00024799

Genre

  • Biography

Subject

  • Biography & Autobiography / Royalty
  • Prussia (Germany) - History - Frederick II, 1740-1786

Plot

Free-thinker, misanthrope, poet, philosopher, law-maker and soldier. Frederick the Great (r. 1740-1786) was a contradictory man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But the king's other -- often ignored -- accomplishments rank him among the ablest statesmen in European history. A patron of artists and intellectuals. Frederick remade Berlin as one of the continent's great capital cities, reformed Prussia's legal system, and strove to match his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement.