Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Inhalt 5
3. Einleitung 7
4. 1. Die Einsicht: An idiot 11
5. 2. Träumer
6. 2.1 Moments of madness 15
7. 2.2 This most perfect society 18
8. 3. Farmer
9. 3.1 A situation so singularly terrible 23
10. 3.2 The commercial expansionist 28
11. 4. Gründer
12. 4.1 His Highness, the President 33
13. 4.2 Unfriendly passions 39
14. 5. Jäger
15. 5.1 A government out of sight 45
16. 5.2 To meet his fate like a hero 49
17. 6. Retter
18. 6.1 The people’s tribune 55
19. 6.2 To win souls 61
20. 7. Lehrer
21. 7.1 Success secrets 67
22. 7.2 The gospel of wealth 73
23. 8. Herrscher
24. 8.1 Boss Tweed 79
25. 8.2 A feudal baron 83
26. 9. Macher
27. 9.1 Patching the state 89
28. 9.2 No sense of the state 93
29. 10. Führer
30. 10.1 Spokesman of the nation 99
31. 10.2 The ultimate disruptor 106
32. 11. Die Aussicht: Global idiocy 113
33. Literaturverzeichnis 115