@article{806182,
      recid = {806182},
      author = {Blanning, T. C. W.,},
      title = {Frederick the Great : King of Prussia /},
      pages = {xxvii, 653 pages :},
      note = {"Originally published by Allen Lane in the UK"--Title page  verso.},
      abstract = {Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th  century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start  of the 19th -- a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless,  brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional  energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists,  architects and writers, most famously Voltaire. From early  in his reign he was already a legendary figure --  fascinating even to those who hated him. Tim Blanning's  biography recreates a remarkable era, a world which would  be swept away shortly after Frederick's death by the French  Revolution. Equally at home on the battlefield or in the  music room at Frederick's extraordinary miniature palace of  Sanssouci, Blanning draws on a lifetime's obsession with  the 18th century to create a work that is in many ways the  summation of all that he has learned in his own career.  Frederick's spectre has hung over Germany ever since: an  inspiration, a threat, an impossible ideal -- Blanning  allows us to understand him in his own time.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/806182},
}