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
Allaire Iron Works Stoudinger built the engine and boiler for the last steamboat contracted for by the Fulton shop, the "Chancellor Livingstone", which was completed about a year later. Stoudinger himself died shortly after completion of "Chancellor Livingstone", after which Allaire decided to move Fulton's equipment from its location in New Jersey to his brassworks at Cherry St., New York. With the consolidation of his business at the Cherry St. plant, Allaire renamed it the Allaire Iron Works. In 1817, the Allaire Iron Works supplied the engine cylinder for "Savannah", the first steamship to make a transatlantic crossing. The cylinder, one of the