National History Center Series: Personality and Power: The Case of Otto von Bismarck

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Speaker
Jonathan Steinberg
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania; Author, Bismarck: A Life
Presider
Wm. Roger Louis
Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas at Austin; Director, National History Center, American Historical Association

Jonathan Steinberg, professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his book, Bismark: A Life.

This meeting is part of a series hosted with the National History Center featuring prominent historians who will examine the events and times that shaped foreign policy as we know it today.

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