Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman one of the few I should like to recall from the dead. It is a very good exercise for an historian to stray into biography - a field seemingly so similar and yet fundamentally different. Perhaps no historian can really handle individual psychology or make an individual the centre of his book. All the same I think my "Bismarck" is the best on him ever written". Taylor's Bismarck is not the Junker and iron Chancellor but a complicated, urban intellectual, "the clever, sophisticated son of a clever, sophisticated mother, masquerading all his life as his heavy, earthen father". Instead of
Statesman Journal Statesman Journal The Statesman Journal is the major daily newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1851 as the "Oregon Statesman", it later merged with the "Capital Journal" to form the current newspaper, the second-oldest in Oregon. The "Statesman Journal" is distributed in Salem, Keizer, and portions of the mid-Willamette Valley. The average weekday circulation is 27,859, with Sunday's readership listed at 36,323. It is owned, along with the neighboring "Stayton Mail" and "Silverton Appeal Tribune", by the national Gannett Company. The "Oregon Statesman" was founded on March 28, 1851, by Asahel Bush, a Democrat, in response to