Metternich"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis. Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspirationgood statesmanship is needed more than ever." Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal "Brilliantly refreshes our understanding of Metternich and his era. [He] was an intellectual in politics of a kind now rare." Christopher Clark, London Review of Books "Succeed[s] in forcing readers to wonder whether