The Red Count: The Life And Times Of Harry Kessler.

From: Harper's Magazine | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: Davenport, Guy | Copyright information

Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), German diplomat, aesthete, patron of the arts, publisher, biographer (of the assassinated Walther Rathenau), diarist, librettist, collector of art and books, army officer, and museum director, was, in W. H. Auden's opinion, "probably the most cosmopolitan mart who ever lived." His life seems to have been written by Thomas Mann, whose fate in many ways ran parallel. Laird M. Easton's THE RED COUNT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARRY KESSLER (University of C...

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