Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-369) and index
Part One. Politics -- The Nineteenth Century : The Triumph and Crisis of Liberalism -- Politics of a Plague -- Demonic Democracy -- Berlin in the 1920s : The Capital Between Empire and Third Reich -- "Working Toward the Führer" -- Founding Father -- Part Two. Culture -- Great Scots! -- Frederick the Great and the Prussian Style -- Frederick the Great and Moses Mendelssohn : Thoughts on Jewish Emancipation -- The Magic Circle -- On the German Historical Consciousness -- Irony and Rage in the German Social Novel : Theodor Fontane and Heinrich Mann -- The Good, the Bad, and the Bourgeois -- The End of the Golden Age -- Politics and Literature -- Berlin : The Hauptstadt, Back Where It Belongs -- Part Three. War -- Prussian Soldiers Against Militarism : Corvin, Willich, Engels, Rüstow -- The Political Leader as Strategist -- The War Against War -- "A Very Strange Machine" -- How to Think About the Swiss -- Fate and the Führer -- The Goblin at War -- The Russians Are Coming! -- Mission Possible -- Coda: History as a Humanistic Discipline
