On March 13, 1848, Metternich fell.
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New York Times Bestseller List!
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05 November 2017
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this is a great story, thank you for telling it.
Posted by: PrestoVivace | 05 November 2017 at 05:23 PM
congrats!
Posted by: two shoes | 05 November 2017 at 07:47 PM
Wow.
Posted by: Eric | 06 November 2017 at 03:49 AM
So, Metternich and Guizot are gone and Marx's and Engels's book which famously mentions those two now mostly obscure figures in its first lines hasn't been mentioned yet?
Posted by: Lukas | 06 November 2017 at 04:34 PM
Let's just pause for a second to acknowledge, that Mike Duncan is ahead of Neil deGrasse Tyson in the NYT Bestseller list.
Who would've thought that ten years ago?
Posted by: Lukas | 06 November 2017 at 04:47 PM
how many people knew about Ferdinand I's disability? Was it commonly known in Vienna?
Posted by: PrestoVivace | 06 November 2017 at 04:50 PM
Congrats! Also, Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinal.
Posted by: GiantPanda | 07 November 2017 at 04:23 AM
Lukas, the Manifesto has been mentioned by name like three times this series. Chill.
Mike, I find it a bit troublesome that the NYT best seller blurb says "fall of the Roman Empire" not "Roman Republic." That's a pretty significant difference, and key to the point of the book.
Maybe send a message to those folks and correct them?
Posted by: Patrick | 07 November 2017 at 09:39 AM
Patrick,
It's been fixed!
Posted by: Alicia | 09 November 2017 at 07:36 AM
Woohoo!
Posted by: Patrick | 09 November 2017 at 08:49 PM
Ah Metternich, one of my favourite historical Austrians. Say what you like, he tried and for a long time succeeded. Now we have Kossuth and co racing about to cause chaos/save the Empire/boost Hungary depending on your point of view.
Also, yay on the book, and I also learnt there are first printings of first editions, didn't know that was a thing.
Posted by: SmudgeThomas | 10 November 2017 at 07:37 AM
history is a a fair judge of people good or bad, and this applies to US presidents: great presidents- Washington, Lincoln, JFK, both Roosevelts. Not so good presidents: Ulysses Grant (great general whose skills did not traslate well into the Oval Office.) My point is I CAN'T believe a book on him beat us on the top 10 list.
from a longtime listener for 10 years (neither Red nor Blue, but Canadian)
PS history will judge Trump, we won't need to(until 2020)
Posted by: Stephen Ng | 11 November 2017 at 02:24 PM