Frederick the Great: A Life in Deed and Letters - Giles MacDonogh

Free-thinker, misanthrope, poet, philosopher, law-maker and soldier. Frederick the Great (r. 1740-1786) was a contradictory man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But the king's other -- often ignored -- accomplishments rank him among the ablest statesmen in European history. A patron of artists and intellectuals. Frederick remade Berlin as one of the continent's great capital cities, reformed Prussia's legal system, and strove to match his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement.MacDonogh, Giles is the author of 'Frederick the Great: A Life in Deed and Letters - Giles MacDonogh' with ISBN 9780312253189 and ISBN 0312253184.