English | ASIN: B0B33DKGM3 | 2022 | 36 hours and 57 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 1015 MB
Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress national independence, and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized. Siemann draws on previously unexamined archives to bring this multilayered and dazzling man to life.