Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman

by Shulamit Volkov

Book Overview

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a figure of great intellectual power who ran the German state, however briefly, during one of its most tumultuous periods, and whose life was "the essence of German Jewish history."

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300144318
• ISBN13: 9780300144314
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.4"