And this is why I want you to be the one who reads the biography! You're the one qualified to determine whether this is more like defending Richard III, or FW. :D
Btw, the Kindle sample's case for the defense was along the lines of, "Look, I'm not saying he was a stellar human being. I'm saying he was the victim of bad PR, because his contemporaries with much better reputations did equally bad things, and yet he's the one who gets all the flak."
Me, lifelong fan of a gangster with good PR: *cough*
OTOH,
Preuss: FW was just a typical Prussian Hausvater!
Salon: Even the typical Prussian Hausvaters were horrified!
So I await your October verdict. Meanwhile, off to entertain myself with more Montefiore and Blanning.
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Re: Alessandro de' Medici
Date: 2021-09-08 12:26 am (UTC)Btw, the Kindle sample's case for the defense was along the lines of, "Look, I'm not saying he was a stellar human being. I'm saying he was the victim of bad PR, because his contemporaries with much better reputations did equally bad things, and yet he's the one who gets all the flak."
Me, lifelong fan of a gangster with good PR: *cough*
OTOH,
Preuss: FW was just a typical Prussian Hausvater!
Salon: Even the typical Prussian Hausvaters were horrified!
So I await your October verdict. Meanwhile, off to entertain myself with more Montefiore and Blanning.