@article{1479011,
      recid = {1479011},
      author = {Müller, Frank Lorenz, and Müller, Frank Lorenz,},
      title = {Our Fritz : Emperor Frederick III and the Political  Culture of Imperial Germany /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {On June 15, 1888, a mere ninety-nine days after ascending  the throne to become king of Prussia and German emperor,  Frederick III succumbed to throat cancer. Europeans were  spellbound by the cruel fate nobly borne by the voiceless  Fritz, who for more than two decades had been celebrated as  a military hero and loved as a kindly gentleman. A number  of grief-stricken individuals reportedly offered to  sacrifice their own healthy larynxes to save the ailing  emperor. Frank Lorenz Müller, in the first comprehensive  life of Frederick III ever written, reconstructs how the  hugely popular persona of "Our Fritz" was created and used  for various political purposes before and after the  emperor's tragic death. Sandwiched between the reign of his  ninety-year-old father and the calamitous rule of his own  son, the future emperor William II, Frederick III served as  a canvas onto which different political forces projected  their hopes and fears for Germany's future. The book moves  beyond the myth that Frederick's humane liberalism would  have built a lasting Anglo-German partnership, perhaps even  preventing World War I, and beyond the castigations and  exaggerations of parties with a different agenda.  Surrounded by an unforgettable cast of characters that  includes the emperor's widely hated English wife,  Vicky-daughter of Queen Victoria-and the scheming Otto von  Bismarck, Frederick III offers in death as well as in life  a revealing, poignant glimpse of Prussia, Germany, and the  European world that his son would help to shatter.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479011},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062696},
}