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Author Volkov, Shulamit, 1942-

Title Walther Rathenau : the life of Weimar's fallen statesman / Shulamit Volkov.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B RATHENAU    Check Shelf
Description ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series Jewish lives
Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
Contents A German Jew in the making -- A man of many talents -- Incursions into politics -- Captain of industry, literary star, lonely man -- Hitting the glass ceiling -- Politician manqué, prophet with a vengeance -- Fulfillment and catastrophe.
Summary "This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) tells of a man who--both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish--rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedented--no Jew in Germany had ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenau's success was marked by tragedy: within months he was assassinated by right-wing extremists seeking to destroy the newly formed Republic. Drawing on Rathenau's papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German-Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled with his Jewish identity yet treasured his "otherness." Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Imperial and Weimar Germany and of Berlin's financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German Jewry in the period before Hitler's rise to power."--Dust jacket flap.
Subject Rathenau, Walther, 1867-1922.
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.
Statesmen -- Germany -- Biography.
Jews -- Germany -- Biography.
Rathenau, Walther, 1867-1922. (OCoLC)fst00039961
Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Statesmen. (OCoLC)fst01131990
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Rathenau, Walther 1867-1922 (DE-588)118598430
Chronological Term 1918-1933
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN 9780300144314 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300144318 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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