Rudolf

This biography is a long-needed vindication: it not only shows the Crown Prince Rudolf who was a Playboy, but also the liberal intellectual who, in opposition to his father, Emperor Franz Joseph, saw the signs of the time and wanted to follow them. Rudolf's childhood was shaped almost entirely by his father's military style of education. Only his sympathetic mother, Empress Elisabeth, and his liberal-minded teachers introduced change and shaped his future ways of thinking. Carl Menger awakened in him the understanding of economic and social relationships, and Anton Josef Zhisman Gindely…