{"title":"Frederic Morton","description":"Frederic Morton (1924-2015) was born in Vienna. Author of National Book Award finalist The Rothschilds, which became a hit Broadway musical, Mr. Morton also wrote several novels. His short fiction appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic, Playboy, and Hudson Review, as well as in Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories and other anthologies.","products":[{"product_id":"a-nervous-splendor-vienna-1888-1889-paperback","title":"A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Book Award Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \"riveting\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times)\u003c\/i\u003e look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empire \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrederic Morton, author of the bestselling \u003cb\u003eRothschilds\u003c\/b\u003e, deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, \"the Western dream started to go wrong.\" In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talents--and all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose \u003cb\u003eLa Ronde\u003c\/b\u003e was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed height of the Viennese Carnival, the Handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and them himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365578899679,"sku":"9780140056679","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RkGyMyajJ99780140056679.webp?v=1789066489"},{"product_id":"thunder-at-twilight-vienna-1913-1914-paperback","title":"Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913\/1914 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThunder at Twilight\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis-Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365896192223,"sku":"9780306823268","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GkvTivpW8G9780306823268.webp?v=1789073644"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/frederic-morton.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}