Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A German Jew in the Making -- 2. A Man of Many Talents -- 3. Incursions into Politics -- 4. Captain of Industry, Literary Star, Lonely Man -- 5. Hitting the Glass Ceiling -- 6. Politician Manqué, Prophet with a Vengeance -- 7. Fulfillment and Catastrophe -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
A figure of great intellectual power who ran the German state, however briefly, during one of its most tumultuous periods, and whose life was "the essence of German Jewish history.".