{"product_id":"forge-of-empires-three-revolutionary-statesmen-and-the-world-they-made-1861-1871-paperback","title":"Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Knox Beran\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAbraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs and brought the rule of law to Russia.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOtto von Bismarck threw over the petty Teutonic princes, defeated the House of Austria and the last of the imperial Napoleons, and united the German nation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The three statesmen forged the empires that would dominate the twentieth century through two world wars, the Cold War, and beyond. Each of the three was a revolutionary, yet each consolidated a nation that differed profoundly from the others in its conceptions of liberty, power, and human destiny. Michael Knox Beran's \u003ci\u003eForge of Empires\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly entwines the stories of the three epochal transformations and their fateful legacies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Telling the stories from the point of view of those who participated in the momentous events -- among them Walt Whitman and Friedrich Nietzsche, Mary Chesnut and Leo Tolstoy, Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie -- Beran weaves a rich tapestry of high drama and human pathos. Great events often turned on the decisions of a few lone souls, and each of the three statesmen faced moments of painful doubt or denial as well as significant decisions that would redefine their nations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With its vivid narrative and memorable portraiture, \u003ci\u003eForge of Empires\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on a question of perennial importance: How are free states made, and how are they unmade? In the same decade that saw freedom's victories, one of the trinity of liberators revealed himself as an enemy to the free state, and another lost heart. What Lincoln called the \"germ\" of freedom, which was \"to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind,\" came close to being annihilated in a world crisis that pitted the free state against new philosophies of terror and coercion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eForge of Empires\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterly story of one of history's most significant decades.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Knox Beran has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYorker\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Columbia, Cambridge, and Yale Law School, he is a lawyer and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44328288452743,"sku":"9780743270700","price":33.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/MdjeXfRGpv9780743270700.webp?v=1775112571","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/forge-of-empires-three-revolutionary-statesmen-and-the-world-they-made-1861-1871-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}