Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A spotlight on ViennaComment: What an unbelievably well researched book AND a fantastic read. This bookA Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 is a MUST-READ for anyone even slightly interested in the Hapsburgs, Vienna, and/or Europe. Well done! Rudy Waldner, author ofMarketing from the Trenches: Your Guide to Retail SuccessCustomer Rating: Summary: Some Like It HotComment: For Billy Wilder, this is formula, done with his left hand. But it entertained in its time; and viewing the young Marilyn Monroe is always pleasant.
Customer Rating: Summary: Genius--and evil--abounded in ViennaComment: A royal mess, more like it. But an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the period between 1865-1914 and why it was the most intellectually fruitful time in history yet the root of so many wrong ideas and evil events of the 20th century.
Customer Rating: Summary: A Splendid MemoryComment: A marvellous, exciting and extremely well written summary of a major and influential time in Western history.Customer Rating: Summary: Hypnotic PortrayalComment: Vienna poised at the end of the 19th century. A striking mix of political ferment, intellectual creativity, gaiety and despair. Resident are an astonishing collection of people whose work would later touch not only Vienna, but resound world-wide: Freud in psychiatry, Mahler in music, Hertzl with the Zionist movement and Klimt in art. And at the center of political and social life of the city is its bright hope for the coming new century - Crown Prince Rudolf. Through 1888 the pace in the city builds to a fever pitch as Vienna begins its season of Carnival.
