![]() ![]() Metternich is often portrayed as the epitome of reactionary conservatism, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power to stifle liberalism and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. "Succeed in forcing readers to wonder whether Metternich's efforts to defend an essentially conservative order against populists and terrorists are so different from the struggles that liberal democracies face today." "A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration-good statesmanship is needed more than ever." ![]() "Succeed in forcing readers to wonder whether Metternich's efforts to defend a. ![]() Christopher Clark, London Review of Books "Brilliantly refreshes our understanding of Metternich and his era was an intellectual in politics of a kind now rare." ![]()
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