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
The Statesman (India) the leading English newspapers in West Bengal, India. "The Statesman" is a direct descendant of two newspapers, "The Englishman" and "The Friend of India", both published in Calcutta (now Kolkata). "The Englishman" was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the principal founder and editor of The Times of India. Knight founded "The Statesman and New Friend of India" on 15 January 1875, which later adopted the current name. The "Statesman" was managed by a British corporate group until it transferred ownership to a consortium of companies with N A Palkhivala as Chairman in the mid-1960s. The first editor assigned