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An Old-Fashioned Tyrant

MacDonald, William | August 7, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. A Biography," by Joseph Redlich. Redlich has succeeded remarkably well in writing a life of Francis Joseph without turning the narrative into a history of Austria or of the Europe in which Austria long played a great part. The task was the more difficult because Francis Joseph, more than most rulers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, identified himself with the state so completely that the one is not to be understood at all without the other.

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EMPEROR Francis Joseph of Austria: A Biography (Book); REDLICH, Joseph; BIOGRAPHY; JOSEPH, Francis; EMPERORS; AUSTRIA
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