A bad case of Prussian blues

The Scotsman | March 18, 2000| | Copyright

Frederick the Great BY David Fraser Allen Lane, GBP 25

ON THE cover of this biography there is a striking portrait of Frederick of Prussia. He is in his sixties. The face is deeply lined and dragged downward, the nose aggressive, the eyes alert, eloquent and suspicious. The expression as a whole is commanding, critical, calculating. He doesn't trust the painter. He doesn't trust us. He doesn't trust anyone. He's confident that he is cleverer than we are, and in control.

Last May Giles McDonogh published a long, detailed life of this self-consciously enlightened, and determinedly absolute ...

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